Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is wearing a long, tan cloak, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His head has been shaved. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Through the years after Ernest was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Ernest's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. His hair is long and white with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are violet.

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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Layabout hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. 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: Revenge; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 36000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his quarterstaff with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is black and curly. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Human compassion; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4 Holy water. 4 Thunderstones.