Description: This man is very fat, and is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, black shirt, and blue tie. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). White opal (400 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has shaved his head bald. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears dull tan sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed lance, just in case. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Guard profession.

History: Born in the west to a Cook, Erevan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He became a Cook soon after.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. After a long history of fighting, Ivellios and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Jeweler and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Pacifist, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (700 gp).