Description: This western man tends to wear a large tan jacket. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is red and very short. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He usually wears his brown robe and has his monstrous two handed axe always slung over his shoulder, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents enrolled him in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. 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: Wants to work out more often; and money/treasure

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears red trousers with black and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His black hair is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born in the west. Shane was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Knight. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1100 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is a Barrister first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Norman was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a large violet jacket. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

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 a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 4 Antitoxin. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Smokesticks. 4 Alchemist’s fire.