Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time, marred by chocolates. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Erdan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Erdan was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Shy. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has a hunchback. He has shaved his head bald. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 takes great joy in being the best Sailor in town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Banded agate (7 gp).

Description: A 6'10" southern man, he wears a white armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Imsh was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his morningstar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Slave, Guardian. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her copper crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Peridot (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She has silver crest. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Jheri was born the youngest of three triplets. Jheri was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Jheri decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Ploughman, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white fur. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a hunchback. Her fur is white and very short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her purple hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Pyra was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'2" and wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright blonde hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Barbena grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To be a Shipwright again; and balancing her hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Everburning torch.