Description: This malnourished man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf. His orange fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Smoking has worked very hard to control his curse. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has wavy black hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Map Maker father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 3000 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Audhild is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Commoner school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the left. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Stableman. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has worked as a Stableman like his mother before him.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.