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 hair is short and chestnut. This gold eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: She usually wears her white robe and has her kukri always slung over her shoulder. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Anne was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barber.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Amber (160 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a blue shirt, with a green mid length skirt with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her red hair is long and unkept. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Onyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man usually wears his black robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder and is in decent physical shape. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tethren grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tethren. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her yellow fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Art fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Shy. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a very tight haircut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Grûblik was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Grûblik grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Grûblik. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 pp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Marshal born in the past three hundred years. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.