Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished halberd as well. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 90 pp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His eyes are brown.

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

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and a deep hatred of orcs

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 16000 sp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He carries with him a set of hammers, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

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. 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. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 pp. Red spinel (100 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, yellow shirt, and brown tie. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His eyes are green and catlike.

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 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: Born in the east to a Bather, Aelar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. He has taken up work as a Bather and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to be a unemployed again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Peridot (40 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Sard (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears baggy blue pantaloons and a grey scarf. His hair is long and white with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. The war was a terrible time for him, and Naill does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Naill was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1800 gp.