Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His red hair is cut short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 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, and carries hand crossbows. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Guy grew up listening to his father's many stories. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2300 sp. Rich purple corundum (800 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly whips and greataxes. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Being a Herbalist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Religious, Rich, Debt, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. He has a hunchback. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small green clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born into a rich family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: This man dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Reynard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Reynard grew up listening to his father's many stories. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.