Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a white vest and prefers blue and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp). White pearl (50 gp).

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is portly but not overly obese. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are gray and beady.

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. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Norman liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Full Plate.

Description: This man wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Simon was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shepherd. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Diggory was born with his father's beautiful face. 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 500 gp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.