Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A 3'1" northern woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Fisher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Fisher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and to be a ruler again

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy red hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Volen never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. His long red fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Spear is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Spear lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. After a long history of fighting, Spear and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a green armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He got into the Barber business at a young age. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barber. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Sensitive, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.