Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Cory abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She has no hair. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A 5'3" northern woman, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her golden hair is cut short. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Theirastra hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 170 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His copper crest is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Azzakh was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Azzakh's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She tends to her Engraver job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gildmak is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Adventurer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her long purple hair kept up in a rat tail. She has black eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Pyra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She uses divination through singing.

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. In her 15th 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. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.