Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scythe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is portly but not overly obese. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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. To his fellows he 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: Hugh was born with his father's beautiful face. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting giants, the young Hugh began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. 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 criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 10 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and green handkerchief worn on her left side. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Layabout. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born to a Actor, her father struggled to pay the bills. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. After a long history of fighting, Leshanna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Shaena never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has rusty crest. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is content

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is white and curly. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. A true patriot, Torbera would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to protect her home

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Guardian. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a large black jacket, and is pretty ugly. He has brown hair. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Mantus and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 310 gp.