Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and blue handkerchief worn on his left side. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is red and very short. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and white robe with the hood down. He has wavy brown hair. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

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 used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). Now he works as a poetry tutor during his time off.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 17000 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'2". He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Balimaar will drive conversation. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in the west to a Baker, Balimaar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Baker. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To be a Barkeep again.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 6000 sp. Malachite (11 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished man dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.