Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his nunchaku. He has black fur. His copper eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His purple hair, when down, is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears black trousers with blue and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a very tight haircut. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. Pink pearl (50 gp). Azurite (15 gp).

Description: This man wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a crossbow, but if one is not available he will default to his rapier. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. This white eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Through the years after Xappan was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Xappan's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. 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's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Banded mail.