Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is silver and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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: To prove his worth to the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fire opal (700 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Jacinth (2000 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'3". He dresses like a well dressed Courier does, and his gloved hand is found clutching a kukri. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Halimath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp).