Description: This younger middle-aged man wears baggy green pantaloons and a violet scarf, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: The child of a Adventurer, who enjoyed hunting, Heian was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Heian took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up crossbow and armor he uses now. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90000 cp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a red costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Aerdeth's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Performer business.

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. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his white hair up. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Erdan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Addict, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Hadarai wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Hadarai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1100 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.