Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a very tight haircut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Nim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has achieved small success as a Mortician.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. 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 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 pp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, marred by beers. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Berrian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 29000 sp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Amber (70 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Onyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.