Description: This malnourished man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His red hair is cut short. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Everard was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Everard's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Everard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Occupation: Server

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This western man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is red. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Manfred grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 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 feels threatened by others; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 gp.