Description: This late middle aged woman wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down and is in decent physical shape. Her golden hair is still thick. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is typically in his Map Maker uniform, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He keeps his silver crest in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Kriv was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Map Maker for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Dariff embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 180 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, tan shirt, and black tie and is in decent physical shape. His gold crest is heavily combed to the left. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3100 gp. White pearl (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Pink diamond (3000 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Sekhmet hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver pearl (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. 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 trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red crest is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bellfounder and was forced into it by her family; and 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

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: She wears white trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'8" when asserting herself. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. The war was a terrible time for her, and Gynk does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Gynk was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Theren has worked very hard to control his curse. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.