Description: This malnourished man wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair is singed and shortened. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Paelias lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak, he is not a threatening figure. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a great chef.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His clothes are grease stained in places. His head has been shaved. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Healer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Passionate, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and green pants. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Theriatis 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 Theriatis. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).