Description: He wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes. He carries a battered shortbow and tarnished club as well. His blonde hair is still thick. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has worked as a Banker like his mother before him.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He dresses well, wearing pastel shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He is baby faced.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Manfred was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Miller again.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has blonde hair. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His tied-back hair is red. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bookbinder born in the past three hundred years. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Anthony grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Anthony. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a very tight haircut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: Alex was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).