Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He carries a battered warhammer and tarnished lance as well. His green crest is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Donaar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 900 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a bow, but if one is not available he will default to his hammer. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Karg was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears a white vest and prefers tan and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He carries a battered lance and tarnished falchion as well. He has done his best to style his brass crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in the north. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears tattered old clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Human compassion.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp).