Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull red iron scale mail. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military, In love. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears baggy grey pantaloons and a white scarf. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a Jeweler, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

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 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: 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 Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears dull green sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed mace, just in case. His red crest is heavily combed to the left. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave, Military, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.