Description: This tall, slender man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His auburn hair is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

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. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered gnolls who tried to eat his hand. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Malmûg was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 270 gp. Silver pearl (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and red handkerchief worn on his left side. His hair is long and brown with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Paelias was born with his mother's beautiful face. Paelias 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 has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortbow.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 180 pp. Citrine (60 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Rose (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His fur is short and black. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Born to a Banker, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 600 gp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Body Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: Money/treasure; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3200 sp.