Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Coral (110 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Jacinth (4000 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Jet (110 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'4". He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with his Map Maker mother left him crippled. Recently the stress of being a Stableman has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to be a map maker again

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is white and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 5. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He got into the Mason business at a young age. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He became a Mason soon after.

Motivation: To be a Locksmith again.

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave, Job, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears an entirely pastel suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His black fur is long and unkept. This copper eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Tree is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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: He desires power and/or immortality; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp.