Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. He has wavy auburn hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Heian 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. Heian 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. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 7000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is an epitome of beauty. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad pastel hat.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. Traki enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Flaws: Racist, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Peridot (20 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears long strands of opal and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a very tight haircut. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this southern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has amber eyes and a tan hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Blacksmith. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Barrister, but he got bored and became a Blacksmith. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Jet (110 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp).

Description: He wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born in a small forest village. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2500 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.