Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his small white hat.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Bernard will drive conversation. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 6'6" eastern man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small white hat.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Dean was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A freak accident while working with his Map Maker father left him crippled. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp.

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 is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He wears his golden hair up. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Bernard was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Architect. He tends to his Architect job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Sard (40 gp). Jet (160 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with pastel slacks. He sports a flattop hair cut. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

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. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3200 sp. Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: He tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries with him a set of crossbows on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His black hair is cut short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Adelard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.