Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He has auburn hair. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spice Merchant business.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Shane was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and is pretty ugly. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Shepherd profession.

History: Born in the south to a Actor, Kathra learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Shepherd, but she got bored and became a Actor. She has achieved small success as a Actor.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1400 sp. Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Obsidian (7 gp).

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a trident on his belt. His red crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Nykkan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nykkan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Attractive. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man wears a yellow shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and blue pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Soapmaker who has hired him part-time. 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: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Alex alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 50 gp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is an epitome of beauty. She has red hair. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Eldeth was born with her mother's beautiful face. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He got into the Body Guard business at a young age. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Body Guard responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 900 sp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears dull blue sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed bow, just in case. Her hair is blonde and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Shamil's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a blue tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He got into the Jeweler business at a young age. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Jeweler for hire.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. The war was a terrible time for her, and Emmeline does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When Emmeline reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Terse, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.