Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is silver and curly. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic, Passionate. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: An older man who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail, he is not a threatening figure. His head has been shaved. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson grey hat.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gardain does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Gardain was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She is an epitome of beauty. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Miller. She has worked as a Miller like her father before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new miller responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Banded mail.