Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull black iron scale mail. His golden hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Richard hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 20000 cp. Moss agate (10 gp). White pearl (60 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in the south. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker pastel hat.

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 is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Miles was born the youngest of three triplets. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 sp.