Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a great chef.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a merchant and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 sp. Onyx (30 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Jade (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears bulky black painted plate armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Raer was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Raer fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his broad brown hat.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a hunchback. His hair is short and white. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Carpenter but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A freak accident while working with his Assassin mother left him crippled. After a long history of fighting, Aramil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive, Antagonistic. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Moonstone (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.