Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears just a white suit. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born to a Mortician, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 50000 cp. Banded agate (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His clothes are grease stained in places. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the south. His first spouse was a Hunter, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 gp. Zircon (80 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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 grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1700 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a tan coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 60000 cp. Peridot (20 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Locksmith but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and 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

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.