Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look and is in decent physical shape. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length blue hair. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Mordai was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Alexandre was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Hematite (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a nunchaku on her belt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly nunchakus and bows. Her copper crest is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and he perpetually has his greatsword ready. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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: Ratlûg was born with his father's beautiful face. A freak accident while working with his Ruler father left him crippled. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

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 balancing his hectic life and new cartwright responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her ears are large.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Deep green spinel (40 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 3'2" and wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her feathered blue hat.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 struck the Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white fur is braided into rings. His skin is flawless and his copper eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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 north; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 cp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dyer. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Dyer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has achieved small success as a Dyer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 60 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).