Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. He is an epitome of beauty. His tied-back hair is black. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He takes great joy in being the best Sculptor in town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He carries with him a set of spears on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Naeris was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Naeris 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. Naeris decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: 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: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has moderate length white hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Cynical, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1400 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, yellow shirt, and green tie. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 150 pp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Jet (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Coral (110 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Amber (110 gp). Peridot (40 gp).