Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it, and he perpetually has his dagger ready. His hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a green collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His scarlet crest is knotted and matted. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Kiirith was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His blue hair is still thick. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines black.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black broad hat and black clothes. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His crest is short and scarlet. His eyes are red.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Tarhun lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.