Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Scribe profession.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has shaved his head bald. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Naill was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sailor. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sailor.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is typically in his Butcher uniform. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. He has a very tight haircut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He's also a talented Stableman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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 he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1800 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Nim never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 170 pp.