Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Pallabar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: An older man who tends to wear a large black jacket, he is not a threatening figure. His gold crest is braided into rings. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Tanner. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Tanner.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull grey iron scale mail. She is physically well-built. Her hair is short and golden. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 11000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has no hair. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Thorpe will drive conversation. He uses divination through singing.

History: He comes from a rich western family. After coming to the age of reason, Thorpe took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears bulky green painted plate armor. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Gesrethe wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Barbarian, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Tanner arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

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