Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Bertram hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Jet (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a pastel scarf, marred by chocolates. His hair is short and brown. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aldous 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; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and is pretty ugly. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.