Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and brown tie. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Slave Trader. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She worked as a nervous Slave Trader and found it very stressful. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She tends to wear a large green jacket. Her silver crest is long and unkept. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mishann grew up listening to her father's many stories. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Jacoba was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 11000 cp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. 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 was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Dyer and was forced into it by her family; and to protect her home

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Guardian. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 90 gp. Sard (60 gp).

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He carries with him a set of greataxes on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His fur is beige and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His first spouse was a Stableman, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sun fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has styled her green crest well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Raiann isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dragonborn unity. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Miller. She carries a battered bow and tarnished rapier as well. Her hair is white and curly. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She's also a talented Layabout, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. 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 has a crush on the local Beggar; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.