Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair is long and white with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Elaim lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp).

Description: He wears just a tan suit, and he perpetually has his bastard sword ready. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length black crest. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2400 sp. Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly monstrous two handed axes and sais. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'1", this man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a violet scarf. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: The child of a Shipwright, who enjoyed hunting, Kriv was taken on many hunting expeditions. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heian grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Heian. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1400 gp. Eye agate (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.