Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Merchant. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. She has a very tight haircut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Insane, Emotional, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She is portly but not overly obese. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Rinn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her first spouse was a Marshal, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She wears her chestnut hair up. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Bolhild is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is a great chef.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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 is greedy; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 230 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). 1 Buckler.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: Sannl is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sannl studied abroad. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a white shirt with thin red vertical stripes and brown pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'0" when asserting himself. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has worked as a Bowyer like his mother before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a bather again

Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1500 sp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Sumnes hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Sumnes reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Blue quartz (14 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has no hair. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Amber (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Jade (130 gp).