Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His head has been shaved. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Tim enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears professional attire. His hair is short and brown. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Locksmith but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his silver hair up. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Frederick was born with his mother's beautiful face. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Frederick has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 15000 sp. White opal (1000 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.