Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair is long and unkept. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears long strands of jet and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. 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, Purban is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 12000 cp.

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 very much looks the part of a Marshal. His brown hair is long and unkept. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Marshal but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He got into the Marshal business at a young age. 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 Marshal. He has worked as a Marshal like his father before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Rose (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: He wears suspenders and yellow workpants. His shirt is pastel, and he wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time, and carries longswords. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Balam hails from a village terrorized by illithids. At a young age his father died while driving off some illithids. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in longsword use. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has no hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Gomory was born the youngest of three triplets. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 30 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).