Description: This tall, slender man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his small green hat.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Torz never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish, Greedy. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Aust hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks and is in decent physical shape. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Ghaliver was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 gp. Peridot (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Hematite (9 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is still thick. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 pp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears tattered old clothes. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.