Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He wears his golden hair up. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His first spouse was a Bookbinder, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is physically well-built. His hair is brown and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. The war was a terrible time for him, and Balimaar does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Pink pearl (90 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a black armored body suit, with a simple yellow line shooting up and back down. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3100 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (60 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Shane hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. 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: He got into the Sellsword business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Sellsword. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Shane was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.