Description: This man stands a little under 6'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His black crest is lengthy. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Valorean was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. He has hazel eyes and a white hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Ûshgol was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ûshgol's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Spy; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism, Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple white robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His red hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Immeral lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Immeral 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. Immeral 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2400 gp. Star ruby (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. He has moderate length brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the west to a Stylist, Hogar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. He has worked as a Stylist like his father before him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. 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 believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 16000 sp. Black pearl (900 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Moss agate (6 gp).