Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her dark red hair is thinning but still full. Her black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Navigator. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Tourmaline (70 gp).

Description: A 5'11" southern man, he wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Simon enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Simon grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Simon. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is content; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her tied-back hair is golden. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She's also a talented Shoemaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a shoemaker again

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Knight

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

Possessions: 110 gp. Jasper (50 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. He is portly but not overly obese. His scarlet crest is braided into rings. He has gold eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born in a small forest village. When Kerkad reached his early adolescence his Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her yellow fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 160 gp. Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the north to a Herbalist, Baelitae learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, and carries ceremonial daggers. Her cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her copper eyes peer out from beneath her top brown hat.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Art is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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's looking for her big break; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears tattered old clothes. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Oda hails from a village terrorized by drow. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and many drow want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

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

Possessions: 80 gp.