Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he usually wears his white robe and has his trident always slung over his shoulder. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

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 cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Shax was born with her father's beautiful face. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 160 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Gifted from a young age, Agnes studied abroad. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (9 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Percival was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears professional attire. Her blue hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Makaria was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Makaria was born on a far eastern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Mason. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's in love

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 8000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has moderate length black hair. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bethrynna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has moderate length black hair. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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, Philomena is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the south to a Glassblower, Philomena learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Full Plate.