Description: He likes to wear tan tank tops with black pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and bows. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and usually wears his blue robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Arannis hails from a village terrorized by goblins. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). A small bag of saffron. (80 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is cut close to his head. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in the west. 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30 pp. Black pearl (600 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Coral (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a worn and beaten armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is short and blonde. His eyes are gray and catlike.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp).