Description: Standing 6'6", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop crest cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Arjhan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. She wears her brown hair up. Her half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 6000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Coral (100 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy blue suit. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her white crest is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mortician. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 gp. Carnelian (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a hand crossbow on her belt. She wears her blonde hair down. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with her Performer mother left her crippled. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull blue iron scale mail, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Slave Trader. She's also a talented Masseuse, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. 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 rapiers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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 Fletcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 19000 cp.