Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has black eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Purson 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. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Black opal (900 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This black eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Body Guard, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has worked as a Barkeep like his mother before him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and likes to wear green tank tops with black pants. His hair is red and curly. His silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1400 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'7" when asserting himself. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Being a Fletcher 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: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a shoemaker again

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears long strands of topaz and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the north. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a fancy green suit and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. He has red eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Mehen was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he's in love

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She usually wears her grey robe and has her mace always slung over her shoulder, marred by chocolates. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.