Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

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 was taken from his home at a very young age. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp. Obsidian (9 gp).

Description: This southern woman wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports red long hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, she is not a threatening figure. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 90 pp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.