Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His white hair is long and unkept. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Akmen is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Akmen lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She sports white long hair. She has gray eyes and a red hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her white hair is braided into rings. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a Shipwright first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Reirak enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1900 sp.