Description: This northern man is wearing a long, brown cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a Interpreter, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heian 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 Heian. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a longsword, but if one is not available he will default to his greatsword. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 700 pp. Banded agate (14 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). White opal (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born into a rich family. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: In love, Rich, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a nunchaku on his belt. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Quarion reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has shaved his head bald. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Nim is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3100 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).