Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 50. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair is short and black. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 sp. Jade (120 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. The war was a terrible time for her, and Verin does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was taken from her home at a very young age. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is content; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 sp. Black pearl (300 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is blonde and curly. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Barfa alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many giants want him driven away

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Zircon (80 gp).