Description: He is a husky man, who wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and green pants. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is short and white. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3100 sp. Jet (130 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She is physically well-built. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Mercenary. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Creega was born the youngest of three triplets. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His first spouse was a Mercenary, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his feathered blue hat.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 800 sp. Tourmaline (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp).