Description: This malnourished man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Bernard abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Poor, Military, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a red Stetson hat and red clothes. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a Bricklayer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. 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 achieved small success as a Interpreter.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A 5'7" southern man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Adelard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is white and very short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Heward was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but he was a colossal failure. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.