Description: He has a missing right arm. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Nicholas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this northern woman is typically in her Shipwright uniform. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shipwright.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

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

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her greataxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her childhood dream was to be a Courier, but she was a colossal failure. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears dull grey sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed scythe, just in case. Her silver hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He wears his golden hair up. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Trey is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.