Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a long, violet cloak. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. After a long history of fighting, Paelias and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Adventurer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 900 gp. Jasper (50 gp).

Description: He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his whip. He carries with him a set of whips on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 14000 sp.

Description: He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Armorer born in the past three hundred years. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Actor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.