Description: This tall, slender woman wears a red costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She has a very tight haircut. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. His gray fur is unkempt and raggedy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Flame was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. After a long history of fighting, Flame and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 35000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a yellow collared shirt and green skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rosalind grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rosalind. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut 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 will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears baggy brown pantaloons and a violet scarf. He has no hair. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fisher who has hired him part-time. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He bought a lance and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carter. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length dark red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Chem was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Chem's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is physically well-built. She sports a flattop crest cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Quespa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Barber. She struck the Barber job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She has moderate length brown hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Eida was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.