Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. 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, Halimath is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Halimath abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aust grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aust. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 pp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Malachite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his right hand. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Ivellios lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: To unite with his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1800 gp. Jade (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a worn and beaten armor. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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 born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Carrie 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. Carrie 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. Being a Bather kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 240 pp. Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 7000 sp. Carnelian (50 gp).