Description: This dark-skinned male is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Slave Trader. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His head has been shaved. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Balimaar was born the youngest of three triplets. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: An older man who tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. He wears an eyepatch.

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. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His childhood dream was to be a Dilettante, but he was a colossal failure. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Gunter was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A middle-aged man, he very much looks the part of a Adventurer, and is pretty ugly. He has blonde hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Adventurer and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad green hat.

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 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: He comes from a rich northern family. A freak accident while working with his Barrister father left him crippled. 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: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Rolf has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 sp. Silver pearl (90 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.