Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a black shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is auburn and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the west to a Healer, Varis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Healer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Ahvain 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. Ahvain 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: 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; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears long strands of opal and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Jet (70 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has auburn hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He's also a talented Stylist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a stylist again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A 6'1" western man, he usually wears his white robe and has his hand crossbow always slung over his shoulder. His red crest, when down, is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Barber kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp).