Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Bertram is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Barrister arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear flannel. His beige fur is knotted and matted. He is baby faced.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Military, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This late middle aged man wears professional attire and is in decent physical shape. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His childhood dream was to be a Fortune-teller, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a fortune-teller again

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and grey handkerchief worn on her right side. She has wavy brown hair. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has a crush on the local body guard

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse, Insane. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 35000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Adventurer business.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Opinionated, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Bardryn isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. Bardryn is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Star ruby (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Sard (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Hadwisa speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Hadwisa hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Hadwisa was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Soapmaker profession.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to be a soapmaker again

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 16000 sp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. He is an epitome of beauty. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are blue 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 invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Heian has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 gp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). 1 Half-Plate.