Description: 5'3" and muscular, this northern man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 6000 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Jet (100 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Jade (100 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Bardryn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Apothecary, but he got bored and became a Guard. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Sard (20 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a black and pastel handkerchief worn on her right side, and is pretty ugly. She has green crest. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her childhood dream was to be a Sage, but she was a colossal failure. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Job, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 pp. Banded agate (11 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Jet (90 gp). Amber (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Bolhild's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has wavy auburn hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Joser was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gifted student he started as a Herbalist, but he got bored and became a Merchant. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Pink pearl (120 gp). Amber (120 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Jade (120 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Artin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 5000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.