Description: This younger middle-aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He enjoys reading and quiet.

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 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Theriatis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 gp. Amber (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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, Nim is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a grey shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and white pants. He has a hunchback. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).

Description: He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times, and he perpetually has his shortspear ready. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ahvain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. 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 a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp. Sard (20 gp).