Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the west to a Cook, Bertram learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Soapmaker, but he got bored and became a Cook. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cook responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

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. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Bertram liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. After a long history of fighting, Bertram and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 13000 sp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Alex's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. His first spouse was a Architect, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his left hand. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: Dean hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 220 pp.