Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Korfel is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1000 pp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His fur is cinnamon and curly. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Body Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gale 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 he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a brown costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. Her black fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bellfounder. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born to a Animal Trainer, her father struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Bellfounder and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bellfounder for the past few years.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bellfounder and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1200 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Morana isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Coral (90 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Jet (90 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp).

Description: This man wears tattered old clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. After a long history of fighting, Tethren and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 800 pp. Sard (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: Azaki lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Sailor; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Jet (100 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp).