Description: This tall, slender man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His tied-back hair is golden. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born in the south. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Lance was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Architect

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

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Shane hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aldous is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born in the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aldous fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 11000 cp. Moonstone (80 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a yellow shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and blue pants. He wears his white hair up. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Spy first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Patrick lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.