Description: He tends to wear a large grey jacket. He carries with him a set of longswords, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Nordak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 sp. Tourmaline (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a green shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and white pants, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She worked as a nervous Gardener and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Locksmith, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a locksmith again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Ridaro hails from a village terrorized by brigands. At a young age her father died while driving off some brigands. Her mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in lance use. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 20 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His rusty crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born in the south. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cartwright for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this eastern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Map Maker. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has a crush on the local map maker

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With wild golden hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.