Description: This western man is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'4", this man wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. His head has been shaved. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Naal lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (4 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp).

Description: Standing 5'1", this man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Body Guard. His hair is red and very short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Beiro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Beiro has worked very hard to control his curse. He's also a talented Crown-heir, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and balancing his hectic life and new body guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears dark leathers with embroidery and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and red. He has green eyes and a green hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Paelias was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Paelias's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He became a Farmer soon after.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

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

Possessions: 140 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp).