Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a green shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Varis grew up listening to his father's many stories. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Weaver they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Animal Trainer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver pearl (160 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the west. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 11000 gp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a black coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2100 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears bulky black painted plate armor. His head has been shaved. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

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 to unite with his sister

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (8000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his black hair up. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).