Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His ears are large.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 8000 sp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a green feathered hat and green clothes. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barkeep. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a grey vest and prefers blue and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has brown eyes and a grey hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Shane was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with his Servant mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Silk rope. 1 Silk rope. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright pastel and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Conrad lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sage who has hired him part-time. A true patriot, Lance would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born to a Locksmith, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Sage.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Poor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 5000 sp.