Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries a battered axe and tarnished pickaxe as well. His hair is short and dark red. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Impeccable, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears white trousers with green and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Ownka speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. A true patriot, Ownka would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. 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 Bookbinder. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 sp. Jade (80 gp).

Description: He wears a yellow shirt with thin green vertical stripes and yellow pants. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed yellow hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the west were limited. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'11". She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nora grew up listening to her mother's many stories. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a fancy black dress. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Lagazi was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and to be a shoemaker again

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Amber (100 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'2". She is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather, and her gloved hand is found clutching a mace. With wild chestnut hair. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a blue scarf, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'3" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born to a Stableman, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she desires power and/or immortality

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Red garnet (90 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'1" and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Shag hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Shag is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Miller. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Expand his business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Unemployed. Her blonde hair is well kept. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gifted student she started as a Spy, but she got bored and became a Unemployed. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

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

Bonds: Job, Nature, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp).