Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has black hair. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 11000 sp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Coral (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Gerald was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 south. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Scribe profession.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Through the years after John was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. John's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Knight.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has wavy brown hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Revenge.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He got into the Sage business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Tailor, but he was a colossal failure. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp).