Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Ernest was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 sp. Moonstone (20 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a black shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and violet pants. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Don is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Don was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Hourglass. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is cut close to his head. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is an amazing painter.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gunter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'3", this man tends to wear a large brown jacket. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

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. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3200 sp.