Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His tied-back hair is red. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is dressed in an above average manner. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a shepherd again

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: The child of a Actor, who enjoyed hunting, Justin was taken on many hunting expeditions. His first spouse was a Actor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'3" and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has silver hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.