Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his lavender fur up. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is short and chestnut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born in a small plains village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. After a long history of fighting, Ekemon and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Lazy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is typically in his Shipwright uniform. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

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

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 40 gp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Merchant. He wears his blonde hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a Butcher, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 50 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He carries a battered rapier and tarnished warhammer as well. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. As a very small child her family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. Her father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect her and cast a teleportation spell that whisked her away. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, grey shirt, and violet tie. Her golden hair is well kept. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a pickaxe on her belt. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady copper eyes.

Personality: Shifting hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.