Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and black handkerchief worn on his left side. His hair is short and silver. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Heian hails from a village terrorized by goblins. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heian 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 Heian. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Heian never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, In love, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears just a pastel suit, she is not a threatening figure. Her gray fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Miner. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She worked as a nervous Miner and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Miner for the past few years.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Miner and was forced into it by her family; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a green coat with tan slacks. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Irann was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.