Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. 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, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'9" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has moderate length white hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Raer was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Laborer and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Laborer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: 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; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 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 is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and morningstars. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He uses divination through singing.

History: Dayereth was born the youngest of three triplets. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Dayereth grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Dayereth. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1200 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'5" and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Traki was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Traki's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Insane, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.