Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His silver hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and expand his business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears just a pastel suit. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Dean is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. The war was a terrible time for him, and Dean does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Dilettante. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Black opal (900 gp). Star ruby (900 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His golden hair is still thick. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Adelard embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Adelard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Adelard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his black hair up. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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, Adelard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Gifted from a young age, Adelard studied abroad. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. Coral (110 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses like a well dressed Shepherd does. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Drogo will drive conversation. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the south to a Shepherd, Drogo learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Shepherd. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Half-Plate.