Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Borgu alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 gp. Sard (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the south. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new blacksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 280 pp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. A true patriot, Erky would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When Erky reached his early adolescence his Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Military, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and carries bows. His green crest is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Maagog was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Slave Trader. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. His black hair is long and unkept. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp).