Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His hair is silver and curly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Anselm hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1 Average lock.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Theobald never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing a long, brown cloak. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tabaxi culture. Gerard is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born into a rich family. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He likes to wear brown tank tops with violet pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a colorful flower in his lavender fur. He has copper eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Spring fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 380 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a pastel coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His orange fur is smooth and relatively long. His ears are large.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is short and golden. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Anne was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He uses divination through singing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Apothecary, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp).