Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This northern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Interpreter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Banded agate (4 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

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. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.