Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a fancy green suit. His bronze crest is heavily combed to the left. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the north. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Norkruuth's homeland. Norkruuth decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears professional attire. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a great chef.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 320 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She stands about 3'0" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Mumpena was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Mumpena decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

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.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears professional attire. Sporting a auburn mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Beatrice will drive conversation. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Beatrice was born with her father's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 30 pp. Coral (120 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and doesn't want to be a fortune-teller and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Bolhild was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Glassblower. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a engraver again

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50000 cp. Amber (40 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Citrine (80 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has wavy auburn hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 370 gp.