Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand his business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2200 sp. Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He is portly but not overly obese. He has wavy black hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. Frug enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a red collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and revenge

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A 5'3" northern man, he wears just a black suit. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She tends to her Healer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 20 pp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She sports a flattop hair cut. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Roofer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Pacifist, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: She wears a brown costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Morana isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born in the south. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying south to reunite her family. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Server and was forced into it by her family; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 4'7" and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Williamina has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. Her black fur is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.