Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has wavy golden hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Arannis took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To protect his home; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a blue costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His silver hair is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Healer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'9". He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail, and his gloved hand is found clutching a hand crossbow. He has shaved his head bald. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born in the west. Halimath 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. Halimath decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).

Description: He has a missing right leg. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants. His white hair is braided into rings. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Mortician business.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heian is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.