Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shield with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Nicholas is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 80 pp. Eye agate (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Jade (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears his auburn hair up. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Charles is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He wears a red shirt with thin green vertical stripes and tan pants. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished rapier as well. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears just a red suit. He has moderate length white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was born in the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and human compassion

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.