Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, yellow shirt, and grey tie. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is black and curly. He is baby faced.

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. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Theren lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 6000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a very tight haircut. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and 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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1200 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Jet (90 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A freak accident while working with his Carpenter father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a tan collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has chestnut hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Brewer profession.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Aelar's homeland. Aelar decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Shepherd for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is red and curly. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver ewer (60 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.