Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Barkeep, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Citrine (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. A true patriot, Carrie would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his chestnut hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Dreali was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Revenge; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his white hair up. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. A true patriot, Mindartis would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Mindartis lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is physically well-built. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Rolen speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Rolen learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Rolen has worked very hard to control his curse. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.