Description: He stands about 5'4" and wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 5000 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His head has been shaved. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. The war was a terrible time for him, and Nim does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2300 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a Seamstress first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Theren alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: He usually wears his red robe and has his mace always slung over his shoulder, and he perpetually has his mace ready. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Adran was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This eastern man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

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. Arannis was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bounty Hunter. 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. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1200 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.