Description: He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries a battered falchion and tarnished bow as well. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Ralf abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears just a blue suit. He has no hair. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a blue tunic with violet highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a mace on his belt, and is pretty ugly. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

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 hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 pp.