Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is red and curly. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a Adventurer, her father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Farmer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. He wears his gold crest up. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This malnourished man typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. His chestnut hair is still thick. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a Scribe first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born in the west. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Traki has worked very hard to control his curse. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His white fur is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries with her a set of hand crossbows on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Pyxrin is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Pyxrin hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Brewer

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

Possessions: 200 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his long copper crest kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He uses divination through singing.

History: Maagog was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Seamstress.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his long black fur kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Sun never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, In love, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp.