Description: This man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in a small plains village. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Paelias was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Soveliss was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is physically well-built. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He carries a battered sickle and tarnished pickaxe as well. His hair is silver and very short. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

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. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vanuath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'8" when asserting himself. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aust studied abroad. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.