Description: This 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 is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Naeris never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and green handkerchief worn on his right side. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a very tight haircut. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born into a rich family. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. 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 decided he is irredeemable; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1800 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He is an epitome of beauty. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears dull red sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Beiro hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in a small plains village. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Masseuse work with an outfit from a few towns over. Masseuse work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Masseuse job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 gp.