Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. After coming to the age of reason, Roland took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He's in love; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Gifted from a young age, Frederick studied abroad. Through the years after Frederick was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Frederick's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Occupation: Body Guard

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

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Terse, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'11" when asserting himself. His auburn hair is long and unkept. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Adelard lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Stableman, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (7 gp). Emerald (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man dresses like a well dressed Stableman does. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the north to a Stableman, Dustin learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stableman. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4 Thunderstones. 4 Thunderstones.