Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his blonde hair up. He has violet eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Frouse abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 900 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His gold crest is thinning but still full. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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 comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Amber (70 gp).

Description: He wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eberdeb fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A 5'5" western man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are blue.

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 afraid of women and trembles around them

History: The child of a Carpenter, who enjoyed hunting, Nicholas was taken on many hunting expeditions. Nicholas was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nicholas decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and wants his loneliness to end

Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.