Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His ears are large.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a great chef.

History: The child of a Stableman, who enjoyed hunting, Theren was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student he started as a Stableman, but he got bored and became a Jeweler. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Jeweler for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Nature, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (6 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a fancy pastel dress. Her cinnamon fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. This copper eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Cask was born with her mother's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. His scarlet crest is singed and shortened. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Mehen was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Body Guard. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 12000 cp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Antinua was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Antinua alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. 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: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp).