Description: A 5'7" northern man, he wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His cinnamon fur is knotted and matted. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Serpent lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He sports a flattop fur cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He tends to his Armorer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Ratlûg 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His first spouse was a Sage, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Greedy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She sports white long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Eloise was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Eloise was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Apothecary. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her golden hair is still thick. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Vani enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Shepherd work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shepherd work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She tends to her Shepherd job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has slicked back black hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in an above average manner. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His crest is copper and very short. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1400 sp. Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His black crest is heavily combed to the left. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a Sellsword first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Sellsword. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Sellsword, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (80 gp).