Description: He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Bertram enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Fisher. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a longbow on his belt. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bernard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Performer

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

Possessions: 1100 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. A true patriot, Gilbert would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's also a talented Tanner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 8000 sp. Fire opal (1200 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. His red hair is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 15000 sp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His first spouse was a Blacksmith, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by his family; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 22000 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.