Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull green iron scale mail. His crest, while still mostly rusty, has prominent grey streaks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Shamash lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This northern 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 auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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 to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. He struck the Laborer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Gunter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spy.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 3000 sp. Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. He is physically well-built. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length cinnamon fur. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Slave Trader they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Herbalist, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. Uthemar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He became a Sage soon after.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 230 gp.