Description: This malnourished man is wearing a long, black cloak. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Peridot (80 gp).

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'7" when asserting himself. He has moderate length black hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He struck the Map Maker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Thamior hails from a village terrorized by orcs. 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. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thamior fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 80 pp. Silver pearl (70 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is typically in his Sage uniform. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He has gray eyes and a white hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He's also a talented Architect, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.