Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This man has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Purson was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 3'4" and muscular, this western man is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Money/treasure; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1200 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he usually wears his blue robe and has his shield always slung over his shoulder. His long yellow fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 80 pp. Red spinel (100 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Peridot (70 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries with him a set of daggers, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Taklinn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gifted student he started as a Shepherd, but he got bored and became a Merchant. He has worked as a Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Shepherd again; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 130 gp.