Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a white vest and prefers green and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

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 invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1 Backpack. 1 Superior lock. 1 Hourglass.

Description: This man wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his right hand. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 6'3". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and his gloved hand is found clutching a club. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gerard grew up listening to his father's many stories. A gifted student he started as a Mercenary, but he got bored and became a Beggar. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born in the south to a Shepherd, Gerald learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with his Baker father left him crippled. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He has no hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 43000 sp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp).