Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Manfred has worked very hard to control his curse. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2000 cp. Zircon (50 gp).

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his falchion, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 20 pp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a Dyer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of a Baker, who enjoyed hunting, Torgga was taken on many hunting expeditions. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She struck the Dyer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her head has been shaved. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

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 is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her crest is rusty and very short. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a fancy grey suit. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his spear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: The child of a Roofer, who enjoyed hunting, Dean was taken on many hunting expeditions. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Pink pearl (100 gp).

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this northern woman wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a greatsword on her belt. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a Sailor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: Avice hails from a village terrorized by drow. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new sailor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She has green eyes and a grey hat with a white feather.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Masseuse hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Masseuse, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Hedonist, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, blue shirt, and pastel tie. His brass crest is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Baradad lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 9000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1500 gp). Gold and ruby ring (11000 gp).