Description: This exceptionally lanky man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Peren hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Peren grew up listening to his father's many stories. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 390 pp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He wears his white hair up. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has achieved small success as a Bricklayer.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). White opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished longbow as well. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).