Description: He stands about 5'9" and prefers to wear flannel. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Azurite (11 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He got into the Mason business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has a crush on the local herbalist

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a blue collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 17th 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 left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 13000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His childhood dream was to be a Layabout, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Slave Trader like his father before him.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.