Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished nunchaku as well. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

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

Possessions: A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: 6'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 150 pp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries with him a set of spears on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Kildrak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This western man wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has shaved his head bald. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Qualen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Qualen was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Scribe. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Gunter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1 Smokesticks.