Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His head has been shaved. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Quarion was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 20 pp. A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He tends to wear a large grey jacket. He has a hunchback. His red hair is cut short. He has brown eyes and a grey hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2100 gp. Red spinel (100 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Guard. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He worked as a nervous Guard and found it very stressful. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. 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 is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Star ruby (400 gp). Rose (20 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries a battered glaive and tarnished pickaxe as well. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Koeth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 9000 sp.