Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a Performer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thradal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Thradal was born with his mother's beautiful face. Thradal was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Performer. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears just a grey suit. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Tim speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born in the south to a Armorer, Tim learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Amethyst (50 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Margery hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Margery alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and a wedding ring on her left hand. With bright chestnut hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born into a rich family. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 700 sp.