Description: He wears baggy grey pantaloons and a blue scarf. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished sickle as well. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, John was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. John was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Layabout. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a black shirt with thin red vertical stripes and pastel pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born into a rich family. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a long, brown cloak. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Masseuse. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student he started as a Butcher, but he got bored and became a Masseuse. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rolf fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Butcher; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He has a hunchback. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Arnold reached his early adolescence his Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Robert was born with his father's beautiful face. 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. After a long history of fighting, Robert and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.