Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He likes to wear black tank tops with grey pants. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He uses divination through singing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 gp. 3 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears baggy white pantaloons and a black scarf. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents were killed by brigands in a raid when he was still a young child. The brigands captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Gerard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: This man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Norman grew up listening to his father's many stories. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and human compassion

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. His black hair is long and unkept. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He receives visions of the future at random moments

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp.