Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a pastel collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a violet scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Herbalist but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A freak accident while working with his Tanner father left him crippled. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor, and is pretty ugly. He has moderate length red hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Theriatis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 200 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: This man wears dull black sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed hand crossbow, just in case, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Peren was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Fortune-teller. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2500 sp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with red slacks. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 sp.