Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, marred by sweets. He wears his golden hair up. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bruz grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 20 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He dresses like a well dressed Stableman does. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

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 lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gifted student he started as a Layabout, but he got bored and became a Stableman. He has worked as a Stableman like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her small blue hat.

Personality: Ulla hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He dresses like a well dressed Tailor does. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a Hunter, his father struggled to pay the bills. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying north to reunite his family. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears professional attire. Her black crest is braided into rings. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Perra was born with her father's beautiful face. A freak accident while working with her Beggar father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She sports a flattop crest cut. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Miller business.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Jheri 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. Jheri decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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 used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a trident, but if one is not available he will default to his greataxe. He carries a battered trident and tarnished greataxe as well. His brown hair is still thick. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Altho fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 sp.