Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His fur is cut close to his head. He has a dull look in his copper eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Banded agate (7 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears an entirely violet suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has done his best to style his brass crest to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

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. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 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: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He uses divination through singing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a black shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Gimurt was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Gimurt 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 drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy dark red stubble. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length dark red hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. After a long history of fighting, Cressel and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Half-Plate.