Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with white pants. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Anverth alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 40 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He has a hunchback. He has black hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Azdûsh is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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, Azdûsh is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses like a well dressed Bricklayer does. His copper crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is an amazing painter.

History: Valorean was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. He has achieved small success as a Bricklayer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a pastel costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She carries with her a set of tridents, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her brown fur down. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Architect arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His white crest is braided into rings. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Simple lock. 1 Superior lock. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep black.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears dull white sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed lance, just in case. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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 was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.