Description: This southern man dresses like a well dressed Baker does. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his black hair down. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. A gifted student he started as a Crown-heir, but he got bored and became a Baker. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 pp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Verna was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 pp. Malachite (4 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Sard (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a axe on her belt. She is portly but not overly obese. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Caelynn is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Blue quartz (5 gp). Rose (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Kothûg will drive conversation. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 8000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Verna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 8000 gp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Gold and ruby ring (8000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. Her brown hair is long and unkept. She has brown eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: This eastern woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rose (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Jet (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Sard (20 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).