Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a yellow poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1100 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Berrian's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Obsidian (16 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Jet (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. Aust was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aust decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He very much looks the part of a Painter. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He worked as a nervous Painter and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Painter for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he usually wears his black robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Quarion abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. After a long history of fighting, Quarion and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Eye agate (14 gp). Azurite (14 gp).