Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a Mason first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in the south to a Mason, Traulam learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She tends to her Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Debt, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 sp. Citrine (70 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: Fallond was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and blue handkerchief worn on her right side. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Kithri was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kithri decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a very tight haircut. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born to a Gardener, his father struggled to pay the bills. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Navigator and was forced into it by his family; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His head has been shaved. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blue stubble. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a axe on her belt. She has a hunchback. Her hair is blue and curly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 160 gp. 4 Holy water.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Orla's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She got into the Beggar business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 sp. Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears just a white suit. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp. Rose (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.