Description: With white 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. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. 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: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and white pants. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ghûra grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Adventurer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. When Matilda reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has no hair. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Glassblower. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Gifted from a young age, Lerissa studied abroad. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to be a courier again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 29000 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He is typically in his Map Maker uniform. His scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Tanner, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.