Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Hadarai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sculptor.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He has moderate length red hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

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 cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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.

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: Greethen lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Family, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has brown hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small violet hat.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears professional attire. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Whurdred was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Sard (60 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears tattered old clothes. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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. After a long history of fighting, Ranala and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears tattered old clothes and is in decent physical shape. His hair is black and curly. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Unemployed responsibilities is difficult; and to be a dilettante again

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Moss agate (13 gp). Rose (80 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and usually wears her tan robe and has her dagger always slung over her shoulder. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. A friendly and beautiful Elf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She got into the Mortician business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Bookbinder, but she got bored and became a Mortician. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Quelenna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 3 Alchemist’s fire. 1 Antitoxin.