Description: A middle-aged man, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and is pretty ugly. His crest is scarlet and curly. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: This man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has shaved his head bald. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Oren will drive conversation. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'0" when asserting himself. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sailor who has hired him part-time. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With wild silver hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: Grai hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Disease. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 sp. Onyx (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3 Smokesticks.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She wears tattered old clothes. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. 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 has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). Recently the stress of being a Bather has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A 5'5" eastern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His hair is chestnut and curly. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Paelias is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She keeps her long red crest kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Courier, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (7 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Jade (110 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).