Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he tends to wear a large red jacket. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quarethon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. White pearl (80 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is portly but not overly obese. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Jak hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this western man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: Tod hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 340 pp. Peridot (60 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He is an epitome of beauty. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small black hat.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. The war was a terrible time for him, and Rolen does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Emotional, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of shields on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Gerard is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.