Description: He wears a grey shirt with thin red vertical stripes and brown pants. He is physically well-built. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Arnold is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Arnold learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and doesn't want to be a beggar and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Azurite (11 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His golden hair is long and unkept. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and he perpetually has his halberd ready. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He uses divination through singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Simon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Simon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 sp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 43000 sp.

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this western man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has wavy auburn hair. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Alexandre lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Banker. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Marshal they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Banker, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp.