Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a simple tan robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (16 gp). Coral (80 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). White pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'8". He is wearing a long, violet cloak. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs, and carries quarterstaffs. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries with him a set of glaives on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Ûkshak speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ûkshak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 110 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp).