Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Alex was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Alex was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alex decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: This man wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Miner. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. When Anselm reached his early adolescence his Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has achieved small success as a Miner.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (7 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and blue pants. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Peter lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Knight they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Painter, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gifted student he started as a Armorer, but he got bored and became a Ploughman. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp.