Description: This southern man wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a brown vest and prefers white and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Mary was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Fisher. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and white tie. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He is greedy; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She usually wears her tan robe and has her longsword always slung over her shoulder, and she perpetually has her longsword ready. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His crest is gold and curly. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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, Norkruuth is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Healer. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and balancing his hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (13 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his broad white hat.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Oblar was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

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. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. She sports blonde long hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 270 gp.