Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Patrick's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has worked as a Miller like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears just a grey suit. His hair is brown and very short. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Patrick was born with his father's beautiful face. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a tan collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: Retire the richest man in the west; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tattered old clothes, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.