Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He struck the Hunter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has no hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He found a children's book about a Human Monk who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a long, yellow cloak. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Hunter was born with his mother's beautiful face. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Hunter has worked very hard to control his curse. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and many brigands want him driven away

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: This man dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has moderate length blonde hair. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 6'6" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp.