Description: He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with white slacks. He is physically well-built. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is an amazing painter.

History: Patrick lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kody is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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, Kody has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears bulky red painted plate armor. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Trey wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Fighter, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a pastel shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.