Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His tied-back hair is auburn. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Frederick was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Seamstress. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family, Slave. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1700 sp. Jet (110 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is physically well-built. His hair is chestnut and curly. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a great chef.

History: Don was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp).

Description: Standing 5'10", this man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is lengthy. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Roger enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has brown eyes and a grey hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His first spouse was a Roofer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Onyx (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).