Description: 3'2" and muscular, this southern man wears a tan collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Erky is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Jade (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. His tied-back hair is silver. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His hair is short and brown. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born into a rich family. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Spice Merchant and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Drogo abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Rose (20 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gunter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Through the years after Gunter was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Gunter's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 70 pp.