Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 4'1". She wears grey trousers with yellow and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Jarana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: Standing 5'7", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. With wild black hair. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Crown-heir. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Joan lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. She became a Crown-heir soon after.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Dilettante but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Iados hails from a village terrorized by brigands. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'0". He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).