Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He carries a battered bow and tarnished club as well. He has wavy silver hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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, Bathin is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Bathin was born with his father's beautiful face. After coming to the age of reason, Bathin took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 50000 cp.

Description: This northern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: This western woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her white hair up. This gold eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Vapula was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Roofer they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Navigator, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 80 pp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.