Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is physically well-built. He has moderate length auburn hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'6" and muscular, this western man is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He comes from a rich western family. 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 Soapmaker. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Soapmaker for hire.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Justin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Farmer they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Body Guard, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1500 sp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Coral (60 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in the north. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Shepherd, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on his right side. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ernest embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Ernest alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.