Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'1" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Tordek was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Tordek decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Criminal record, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 250 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has a very tight haircut. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the east to a Courier, Donella learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Donella was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Obsidian (4 gp).

Description: An older man who prefers to wear flannel, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and violet robe with the hood down. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 27000 cp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Interpreter. Her red fur, when down, is lengthy. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Interpreter. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Interpreter responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Zunn studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Pink diamond (8000 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Coral (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). White opal (500 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her brown fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. 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: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Interpreter born in the past three hundred years. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 90 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: Standing 5'1", this woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her black hair is long and unkept. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her feathered blue hat.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Phann's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the north, 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 north 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. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.