Description: This northern man wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has auburn hair. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shepherd for hire.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'2". He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, In love. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: She wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her kukri, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Pennie was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He stands about 3'4" and wears skinny pants and wears a tan and brown robe with the hood down. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Being a Sellsword kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and sports empty pouches on his belt. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His childhood dream was to be a Shoemaker, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Stableman job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1600 sp. 6 Acid flasks.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'2" when asserting herself. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Tawar liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1400 sp. Hematite (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with brown slacks. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'0". He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Eberk will drive conversation. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Recently the stress of being a Blacksmith has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.