Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ûkbûk will drive conversation. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born into a rich family. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He carries with him a set of shortspears, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Veit will drive conversation. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A freak accident while working with his Unemployed mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'10" and is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His tied-back hair is red. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 Mercenary. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 pp. Jade (90 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a tan collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She wears her black hair down. She is baby faced.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Mardnab was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ruler.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: In love, Job, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Holy water. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, white cloak. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sailor and was forced into it by her family; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 7000 sp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She keeps her white fur in a pixie cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: The child of a Herbalist, who enjoyed hunting, River was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 190 pp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Scribe. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 90 gp.