Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a brown vest and prefers white and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a jeweler and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 10000 cp. Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears brown trousers with red and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a green coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Don was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Crown-heir. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Bonds: Religious, Family, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 11000 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a green shirt with thin white vertical stripes and yellow pants. His head has been shaved. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His childhood dream was to be a Knight, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Server

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Citrine (80 gp). 1 Climber’s kit.