Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a yellow poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jo 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 Jo. She tends to her Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to be a baker again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a sai, but if one is not available he will default to his bow. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Reynard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Coral (80 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raam lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 saw the violence of war and the aftermath so he converted to religion and dedicated himself to non-violence.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.