Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40000 cp. Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He carries with him a set of flails on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. He has wavy chestnut hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bow on his belt. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Dean lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. After a long history of fighting, Dean and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp).

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Richard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Jasper (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. White opal (1100 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).