Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has wavy dark red hair. His silver eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Gifted from a young age, Cairn studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: 3'4" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Zook has worked very hard to control his curse. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her glaive with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her yellow fur up. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a Glassblower first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He got into the Glassblower business at a young age. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has worked as a Glassblower like his father before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Family, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, marred by sweets. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mayor

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

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has wavy red hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Hlin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Blacksmith. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a green cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Bûbol and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this northern man dresses like a well dressed Priest does. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born in the north to a Priest, Erdan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He's also a talented Painter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.