Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears tattered old clothes. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 17000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is singed and shortened. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Aldous has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aldous fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1400 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gerard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2300 sp.