Description: 3'6" and muscular, this northern man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His tied-back hair is black. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Ribbles's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 cp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. Her yellow fur is thinning but still full. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is a Shoemaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Shoemaker and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 5000 gp. Coral (110 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Coral (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull white iron scale mail. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His auburn hair is still thick. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Rolen hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 10000 cp.