Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has wavy brown hair. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Architect but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a blue tunic with tan highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is portly but not overly obese. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. She has green eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Spice Merchant and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 16000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'11" northern woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her fur is black and very short. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Flame was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 170 gp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt, she is not a threatening figure. Her blue hair is still thick. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Gifted from a young age, Makaria studied abroad. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 50 pp. Bloodstone (70 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 cp.