Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Jocelyn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Jocelyn's homeland. Jocelyn decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is typically in his Ploughman uniform. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Randal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has achieved small success as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 44000 sp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Hourglass.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He wears his red hair up. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear yellow clothing when he does not wear armor. He wears his brown hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Clerebold was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His head has been shaved. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp.