Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a crush on the local mason

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Military, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: 6'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. 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, Astaro is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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's also a talented Armorer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her crest is scarlet and very short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Jezean was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 cp. Hematite (7 gp).

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She carries with her a set of flails on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small red clips. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 10000 cp. Black pearl (600 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Rose (30 gp). White pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears white trousers with pastel and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her silver hair is still thick. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. Philomena enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Philomena was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dondon 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 he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 60000 cp. Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length brown fur. His copper eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed pastel hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Now he works as a singing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated, Gifted, Logical. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 80000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.