Description: He is a husky man, who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born in a small desert village. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Bernard took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up longbow and armor he uses now. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Bertram 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's in love; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Map Maker business.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Map Maker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears blue trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. His auburn hair is long and unkept. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Adelard is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Adelard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with grey slacks. His hair is long and white with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Robert is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Robert was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.