Description: This dark-skinned male tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and brown handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Varis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Halimath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his broad brown hat.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: Standing 4'9", this man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull green iron scale mail. His head has been shaved. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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, Himo is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Himo's homeland. Himo decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 210 pp. Rock crystal (20 gp).