Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. 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: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken from his home at a very young age. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Buvvie wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warrior, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is obsessed with her god.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Buvvie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She worked as a nervous Gardener and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Gardener.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and balancing her hectic life and new gardener responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: 4'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a very tight haircut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Dworic was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He struck the Banker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Revenge; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Elaim never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 sp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Neega will drive conversation. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 10 pp.