Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Cook arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Family, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the west to a Courier, Bernard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and expand his business

Flaws: Selfish, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Kody isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Kody was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. His tied-back hair is white. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.