Description: 6'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His black hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Cook work with an outfit from a few towns over. Cook work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 70 gp. Coral (120 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a pastel small hat and pastel clothes. His fur is gray and curly. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Through the years after Ulfgar was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Ulfgar's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Ulfgar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. Jade (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears just a black suit. She has styled her dark red hair well, parting it to the left. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She bought a club and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering his clean studded leather. He keeps his long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a great chef.

History: Born to a Armorer, his father struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Junk Dealer and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Junk Dealer like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Volen will drive conversation. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Priest profession.

History: She got into the Merchant business at a young age. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 70 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her brown fur is smooth and relatively long. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired her part-time. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this eastern man is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 30 gp.