Description: This exceptionally lanky man very much looks the part of a Mason. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born to a Navigator, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mason. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'4", this woman wears a black shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. With wild golden hair. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

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 is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Ekk was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2300 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His first spouse was a Banker, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and balancing his hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 290 pp. Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Map Maker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Map Maker. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.