Description: An older man who is dressed in an above average manner, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is blonde and very short. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A 4'5" northern man, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rurik grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rurik. He bought a trident and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Sard (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Roger 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. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in earthy colors with a black and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. Her brass crest, when down, is lengthy. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Eggren is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Eggren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Shipwright. She has worked as a Shipwright like her father before her.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shipwright and was forced into it by her family; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job, In love. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1900 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her hair is long and golden with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. The war was a terrible time for her, and Philomena does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Relaxed voice

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

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Ruler. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her childhood dream was to be a Bellfounder, but she was a colossal failure. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Painter does. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Sun was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Recently the stress of being a Painter has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1800 gp. Silver pearl (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp).

Description: She wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars, and she perpetually has her sickle ready. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Hedonist. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp.