Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Bernard was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. Jasper (60 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'6" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His silver hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Don 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 Don. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Don never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to protect his home

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, In love, Guardian. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He stands about 5'5" and is typically in his Stableman uniform. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His head has been shaved. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He found a children's book about a Human Fighter who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is physically well-built. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. After a long history of fighting, Gilbert and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.