Description: He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. 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 lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and elven compassion

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3200 gp. Obsidian (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Jet (90 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp).

Description: He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He has shaved his head bald. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Ugly. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'11" western man, he wears a green cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he's in love

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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, Ahvain is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahvain grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ahvain. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Jade (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Jade (100 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Red spinel (100 gp).