Description: This light-skinned male wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. 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: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

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

Description: This man wears a blue vest and prefers red and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Beggar. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 9000 cp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His head has been shaved. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 4000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Sellsword job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Black opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a crossbow on his belt. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Richard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.