Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, and he perpetually has his monstrous two handed axe ready. His silver hair is still thick. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Zook hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3200 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears tattered old clothes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Alberich 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 Alberich. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and 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

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

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

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Trym lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Merchant. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, yellow shirt, and blue tie. He sports a flattop hair cut. His ears are large.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has achieved small success as a Shepherd.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Kipper never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.