Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear flannel. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Donella grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by sweets. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Tim was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a fancy tan suit. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Nora lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student she started as a Mason, but she got bored and became a Ruler. She struck the Ruler job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Ruler and was forced into it by her family; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Family, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dilettante. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His crest is green, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Nadarr alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a simple tan robe with red stripes complete with hood. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: Ielenia 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 is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He likes to wear black tank tops with tan pants. His head has been shaved. He has amber eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His silver crest is smooth and relatively long. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 90 pp.