Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. 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-brother.

History: Aust was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has worked as a Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 gp. Obsidian (4 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He is physically well-built. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in the west to a Banker, Aelar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Banker. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is an epitome of beauty. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Thamior enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Cynical, Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair is long and unkept. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Enialis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beiro fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 13000 sp.