Description: 5'3" and muscular, this southern man wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His brown hair is braided into rings. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Don hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. A gifted student he started as a Map Maker, but he got bored and became a Slave Trader. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a shortbow on his belt. His clothes are grease stained in places. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are amber.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

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 writing training, and achieved minor success. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Opinionated. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Patrick is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1700 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Robert 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 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: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Norman was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Barbarian, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Barbarian in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Norman was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and to be a spice merchant again

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.