Description: This western man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Butcher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 comes from a rich eastern family. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: To be a Doctor again.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Anselm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears long strands of amethyst and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 60 pp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.