Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He has chestnut hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Banker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large tan jacket. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Theodoric was born with his father's beautiful face. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 9000 sp. White opal (900 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Amber (50 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear flannel. He has a very tight haircut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Thomas's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Thomas is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 35000 sp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a scimitar on his belt. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Drogo grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Armorer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Armorer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 80 pp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Jade (90 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). 1 Alchemist’s fire. 1 Alchemist’s fire. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, marred by sweets. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Good lock.