Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and is pretty ugly. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Expert school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Animal Trainer and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist, Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Charles was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Mason. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Charles never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Slave, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has wavy brown hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.