Description: He stands about 6'1" and prefers to wear flannel. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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 son.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. Onyx (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears just a green suit. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A gifted student he started as a Stableman, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. He tends to his Herbalist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aldous speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. The war was a terrible time for him, and Aldous does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Ostracized due to the martial 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. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aldous fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 23000 sp.

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, John will drive conversation. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: John lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 pp.