Description: This slender man stands about 3'5". He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Through the years after Umpen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Umpen's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Umpen and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. White pearl (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). Sard (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Guy isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Guy was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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 has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp.

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 red iron scale mail. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. The war was a terrible time for him, and Einkil does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Einkil was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Healer and was forced into it by his family.

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a green coat with black slacks. He is physically well-built. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nim grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mayor. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a black coat with green slacks. He wears a colorful flower in his scarlet crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp).