Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is silver and very short. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her red hair up. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Sumnes will drive conversation. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is black and very short. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

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. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Shava is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'11" and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is still thick. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Heian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Heian grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 cp. Jade (110 gp).