Description: This malnourished man is wearing a long, brown cloak. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Mindartis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in the south to a Animal Trainer, Heian learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Heian took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He is baby faced.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Naeris was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Through the years after Naeris was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Naeris's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Coral (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Malachite (16 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has blonde hair. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He usually wears his grey robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 500 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).