Description: This southern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

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

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Clear bright green emerald (3000 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Brown diamond (3000 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: He likes to wear white tank tops with black pants. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. The war was a terrible time for him, and Paelias does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Paelias lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears bulky brown painted plate armor, and is pretty ugly. He has moderate length brown hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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: A powerful slaver made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Tailor, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 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 (60 gp). A small bag of saffron. (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is physically well-built. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 9000 sp. Chalcedony (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Berrian is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. After coming to the age of reason, Berrian took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 40000 cp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.