Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair is cut short. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered yellow hat.

Personality: He hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Grom was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's also a talented Shepherd, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He bought a scimitar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and blue pants. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has green eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Nim will drive conversation. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Nim hails from a village terrorized by goblins. A freak accident while working with his Baker mother left him crippled. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 270 pp. Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. The war was a terrible time for him, and Igden does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

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

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate.

Description: 4'5" and muscular, this southern man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Darrak was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 8000 cp.