Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has moderate length blue hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gifted student he started as a Laborer, but he got bored and became a Bricklayer. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 700 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'1" when asserting himself. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Travok lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and doesn't want to be a shipwright and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears professional attire. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is red and very short. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Balifra learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears professional attire. She has wavy red hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pearl fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Golden pearl (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her rusty crest is thinning but still full. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Cook. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 gp. Jasper (30 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. He wears a white shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and green pants. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He carries with him a set of bastard swords, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a colorful flower in his gold crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 8000 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Blue-white diamond (8000 gp). Azurite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.