Description: This man stands a little under 5'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Ernest lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 16th 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears long strands of topaz and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Randal was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To protect his home; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He has a very tight haircut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, marred by chocolates. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Mason. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He always admired arcane-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: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 21000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a grey vest and prefers white and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His head has been shaved. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Logical, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 90 pp.