Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Ortegar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 11000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing a long, yellow cloak. With wild white hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Jane was born with her mother's beautiful face. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Rich, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Tourmaline (50 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Coral (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 gp. Blue sapphire (600 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Obsidian (4 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Fivin is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Fivin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Navigator and was forced into it by his family; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 9000 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Jade (140 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this southern woman wears black trousers with yellow and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her white hair is long and unkept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Pyra alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1200 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears brown trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and he perpetually has his crossbow ready. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3000 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Coral (60 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a greataxe on her belt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Kathra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Coral (70 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.