Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His brown hair is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mindartis will drive conversation. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Blacksmith and was forced into it by his family; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Extrovert, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

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

Possessions: 4000 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a green coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Fonkin 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple green robe with violet stripes complete with hood. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His face is scarred and worn.

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. John is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His head has been shaved. He has green eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nordak grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nordak. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 pp. Sard (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Banded agate (6 gp).