Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His tied-back hair is black. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 Bellfounder. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bellfounder for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear flannel. His hair is black and curly. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Bertram managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller 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 Fortune-teller. He tends to his Fortune-teller job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1500 sp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). 1 Antitoxin. 1 Alchemist’s fire. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.