Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Peridot (70 gp).

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of sickles on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Crown-heir mother left him crippled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a green shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and black pants. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Norman was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Norman's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Norman and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Alex lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Antitoxin. 1 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Holy water. 1 Everburning torch.