Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

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 is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Heward hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. At some point he was captured by gnolls and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortbow.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 12000 cp. 1 Holy water. 1 Holy water.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gifted student he started as a Carter, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2300 sp. Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man very much looks the part of a Brewer. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A gifted student he started as a Miner, but he got bored and became a Brewer. He struck the Brewer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He takes great joy in being the best Spice Merchant in town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Guy took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

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, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'4" when asserting himself. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He uses divination through singing.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has achieved small success as a Stylist.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp.