Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a long, white cloak. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Balimaar wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Bard, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was born in a small plains village. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 6000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

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. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 16000 cp.

Description: He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Slave Trader profession.

History: Born in the south to a Miller, Aldous learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Miller. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Slave Trader they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Miller, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Pink pearl (50 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insomniac. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.