Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a axe, but if one is not available he will default to his monstrous two handed axe. He has a hunchback. His tied-back hair is black. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Nicholas was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has styled his silver hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 38000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shepherd business.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 7000 sp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'10" and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has gray eyes and a blue hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Gerard lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Everburning torch. 2 Acid flasks. 3 Holy water.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He wears a black vest and prefers green and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. Manfred 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 sp.