Description: This eastern man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is silver. He has green eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sickle.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 350 pp. Rose (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Jet (150 gp).

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this western man wears baggy black pantaloons and a red scarf. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Quarion lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 90 pp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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, Heian is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Heian was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears his silver hair down. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after Riardon was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Riardon's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Nim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nim decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 sp. Moss agate (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.