Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has moderate length bronze crest. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mayor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the south to a Mayor, Shamash learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Recently the stress of being a Mayor has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: To protect his home; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1500 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. His ears are large.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Hunter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. Azurite (16 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His skin is flawless and his silver eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 900 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Gold and ruby ring (3000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Silk rope. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Disguise kit.