Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Nicholas was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses like a well dressed Hunter does. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'3" when asserting himself. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Through the years after Frederick was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Frederick's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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. A gifted student he started as a Beggar, but he got bored and became a Engraver. He has worked as a Engraver like his father before him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 80 pp.