Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to protect his home

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 10000 cp. Jet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is an epitome of beauty. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Fistula hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'1" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. Iolite (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her hair is blue, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3000 sp. Carnelian (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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 is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: A 3'2" eastern man, he tends to wear a large red jacket. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Pikar was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the east were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item.