Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and green tie. His blue crest is still thick. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Amber (160 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Moss agate (9 gp).

Description: He wears a white coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Latbag was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Latbag's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is renowned for his bright violet suits and hats. He is physically well-built. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 170 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Orryn's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. He has moderate length chestnut hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Bowyer mother left him crippled. Being a Dyer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has wavy blonde hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With bright auburn hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born into a rich family. Quilla was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Tailor. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.