Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He has wavy red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Tod never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 12000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp).

Description: He has a missing left arm. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. A true patriot, Ar-Beka would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Ar-Beka took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up nunchaku and armor he uses now. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 12000 gp. Rose (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Locksmith. 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: Maynild was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a yellow costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

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 motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. In her youth she was a Beggar, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 11000 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Amber (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. Emerald (1400 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Amber (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Rose (70 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. He has shaved his head bald. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. 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: He got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. Fivin was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shoemaker. He's also a talented Stylist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 16000 gp. Moss agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.