Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 60. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Skog does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Skog abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 90 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp).

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear yellow clothing when she does not wear armor. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: She got into the Cook business at a young age. A freak accident while working with her Slave Trader father left her crippled. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and human compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: He wears a blue deerstalker hat and blue clothes. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are blue.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She usually wears her tan robe and has her longsword always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. She is baby faced.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Felosial grew up listening to her father's many stories. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with her old friends

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ghash studied abroad. 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 is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is wearing a long, green cloak. His bronze crest, when down, is lengthy. 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 loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears tattered old clothes. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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, Bernard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. Through the years after Bernard was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Bernard's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Engong was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (40 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and carries longswords. His long orange fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his yellow eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Three's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Three was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Layabout, but he got bored and became a Gardener. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Gardener.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 340 gp.