Description: This man wears a green shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and brown pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2200 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His golden hair is cut short. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The war was a terrible time for him, and Erdan does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

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. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a shoemaker and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1200 gp. Violet garnet (1600 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and pickaxes. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1400 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Arannis lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

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; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has no hair. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the east. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 8000 sp. White pearl (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp).