Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born in a small plains village. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sculptor.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 8000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a hunchback. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She takes great joy in being the best Baker in town.

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. 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 Baker. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortbows and rapiers. He has no hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Being a Architect kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a grey vest and prefers brown and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: This woman very much looks the part of a Tailor, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has moderate length silver hair. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a great chef.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Eva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has a very tight haircut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp).