Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Patrick lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate, and carries bows. Her dark red hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are likewise black. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Damaia was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Being a Unemployed kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 270 gp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His rusty crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He tends to his Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Alice grew up listening to her father's many stories. Alice was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alice decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 140 gp.