Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He comes from a rich western family. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Brewer. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears an entirely tan suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Tana was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Tana decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Greedy, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 140 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her red hair is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Audhild grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her first spouse was a Ruler, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ruler they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Cartwright, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Ruler; and doesn't want to be a cartwright and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 120 gp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Scribe arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a scribe and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a Priest, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Courier hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Priest again.

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Bertram hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her fur is white and curly. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Shadow hails from a village terrorized by drow. A freak accident while working with her Doctor mother left her crippled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Gardain speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the west were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Slave, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.