Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Anselm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He struck the Fortune-teller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1700 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

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. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

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. Through the years after Kody was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Kody's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Kody and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to be a miner again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: In love, Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has no hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Balimaar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Patrick was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He is a Deep Scion in disguise. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.