Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: He is a Tanner first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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 got into the Tanner business at a young age. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Tanner for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: 4'4" and muscular, this northern man is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Map Maker born in the past three hundred years. 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Whurbin has worked very hard to control his curse. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a barkeep again

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2500 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 2 Holy water. 4 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is in excellent shape and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Greeba lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is content; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40000 sp. A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her scarlet crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Gilkass never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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: He comes from a rich southern family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 90000 cp. White pearl (90 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She keeps her orange fur in a pixie cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A gifted student she started as a Mason, but she got bored and became a Laborer. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. Emerald (900 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears dull brown sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed spear, just in case. She has wavy orange fur. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered dire rats who tried to eat her hand. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Gale was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2100 gp.