Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are a pleasant white.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears skinny pants and wears a tan and violet robe with the hood down. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Hatae isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Barrister mother left her crippled. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hatae fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants revenge against goblins; and many goblins want her driven away

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a falchion on her belt. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her gray 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 has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: He very much looks the part of a Cook. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a very tight haircut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. 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 Cook. He tends to his Cook job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a white tunic with green highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Stannor lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is physically well-built. His brown hair is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Laucian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Terse, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a greatsword, but if one is not available he will default to his kukri. He is physically well-built. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Gennal took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears brown trousers with yellow and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.