Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His purple hair is still thick. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Cressel hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting orcs, the young Cressel began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 sp. Coral (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Mormo was born on a far eastern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Carter. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 sp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears tattered old clothes. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Sannl is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1700 sp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She is a husky woman, who dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is content

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and doesn't want to be a bricklayer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 sp.