Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has shaved his head bald. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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 is obsessed with his god.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born to a Glassblower, his father struggled to pay the bills. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to be a glassblower again

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and longswords. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Aramil will drive conversation. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Aramil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aramil grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aramil. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Sard (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'7". He usually wears his white robe and has his bow always slung over his shoulder. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Suhnae enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Shepherd hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has worked as a Shepherd like his mother before him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length white hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born in a small island village. After coming to the age of reason, Soveliss took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He bought a sword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 gp.