Description: This tall, slender man usually wears his tan robe and has his quarterstaff always slung over his shoulder. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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: Gunter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 south. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Fisher for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 700 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a black vest and prefers yellow and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His golden hair is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit men.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Buckler. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Ralf lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.