Description: 4'8" and muscular, this southern man prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 7000 sp. Emerald (1300 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear black tank tops with red pants. He is physically well-built. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful, Depressed. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy black suit. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Being a Priest kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Persistence, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 50 pp. Star ruby (800 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a blue scarf. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After months of barely getting by, Suhnae managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2200 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (60 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Nutae 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: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Stableman mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 10 pp. Eye agate (4 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp).