Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'2". He wears green trousers with black and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Fenriz and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Alexandrite (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Coral (60 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Jade (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red crest is long and unkept. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Arava was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Arava alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red garnet (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing a long, red cloak. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Roge was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a blacksmith again

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a tan tunic with pastel highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Siffress has worked very hard to control her curse. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with violet slacks. Her brown fur is thinning but still full. Her eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Quick was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 8000 gp. Pink pearl (140 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is light but she possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her black hair is well kept. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She got into the Map Maker business at a young age. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Map Maker. She tends to her Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to be a banker again

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 8000 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.