Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, and is pretty ugly. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ernest fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and usually wears his tan robe and has his longbow always slung over his shoulder. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his broad tan hat.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants, and is pretty ugly. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Star rose quartz (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a grey vest and prefers black and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is still thick. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Norman wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Aristocrat, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for him, and Norman does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Norman was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp.