Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He has chestnut hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Bertram was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses like a well dressed Mayor does. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mayor for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Ploughman, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Family, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears an entirely green suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is a great chef.

History: He was born in the east. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his lance with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Hugh hails from a village terrorized by orcs. At a young age his father died while driving off some orcs. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in lance use. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.