Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has moderate length black crest. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her black hair is wavy and long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

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. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: Standing 3'0", this woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Nissa hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has wavy brown hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'2" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. A true patriot, Criella would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate.