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: He is lean but muscular and wears a black vest and prefers pastel and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Lamlis is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Lamlis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Through the years after Lamlis was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Lamlis'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: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2200 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is auburn and curly. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

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. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Forgetful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Jade (100 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a great chef.

History: Naill was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Naill alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He struck the Banker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Berrian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 30000 cp. A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.