Description: This man is tall and muscular. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His ears are large.

Personality: Shane speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Bookbinder and found it very stressful. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Full Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears long strands of topaz and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His bronze crest is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is cut close to his head. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. The war was a terrible time for her, and Avelina does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Halfling companion (her 'brother'). She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with red pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'8" when asserting himself. His hair is auburn and curly. He has blue eyes.

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 suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Rose (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Coral (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'5", this man likes to wear grey tank tops with brown pants. He has moderate length auburn hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull red iron scale mail. Her auburn hair is still thick. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Balifra was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Rogue, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Rogue in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 60 gp. Black pearl (200 gp).