Description: He stands about 5'7" and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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 is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Gerard was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. After a long history of fighting, Gerard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Stableman but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Lance abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 60 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a black costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Courier born in the past three hundred years. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Hugh 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. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a fancy tan suit. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 gp. Obsidian (4 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Manfred was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 14000 sp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). Jet (150 gp).