Description: This dark-skinned male prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has no hair. His hazel 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 kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a whip on his belt. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is dark but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. 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: Roland lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Gilbert was born with his mother's beautiful face. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. 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: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is greedy

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Engraver

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

Possessions: 500 gp. Black opal (1400 gp). Iolite (80 gp). White opal (1400 gp).

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 chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are amber 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. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Holy water. 3 Tanglefoot bags.