Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Raer was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 900 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Rose (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a black scarf and is in decent physical shape. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Aelar 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. Aelar 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. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 110 pp. Violet garnet (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.