Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

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. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Galiena speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Impeccable, Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 sp. Jade (120 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is black and very short. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an entirely green suit with red socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her dark red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Tanner. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gifted student she started as a Healer, but she got bored and became a Tanner. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her quarterstaff with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Markosian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Markosian lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 11000 sp. Zircon (60 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Anne is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Anne 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. Anne 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. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She dresses like a well dressed Brewer does. Her red crest, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. Quespa 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. A gifted student she started as a Baker, but she got bored and became a Brewer. She has worked as a Brewer like her mother before her.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1200 gp. Eye agate (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Hematite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Cook. He tends to his Cook job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.