Description: A moderately attractive man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To pay off his debts.

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Debt. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. He has a hunchback. His golden hair is thinning but still full. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This late middle aged man is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and white handkerchief worn on his left side and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Shane alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has green eyes.

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 a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is content; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2500 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.