Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is also unnaturally pale. His golden hair is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Beiro was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Guard. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 3000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'9" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Himo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bather. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Carnelian (30 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Coral (140 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is long and auburn with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He has gray eyes and a red hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 gp. Amethyst (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His tied-back hair is red. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his youth he was a Laborer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Beiro was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf, and carries flails. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Berrian 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: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 east. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Alexandrite (1500 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Jade (110 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.