Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a white shirt with thin green vertical stripes and brown pants. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Ghaliver hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 130 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With wild chestnut hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Symma grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Symma. Being a Ploughman kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a long, white cloak. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 160 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (60 gp).

Description: This northern woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has moderate length orange fur. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of a Shepherd, who enjoyed hunting, Five was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3100 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Crown-heir but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Mumpena was born with her father's beautiful face. 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 has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Laborer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 pp.