Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

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 daughter. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Sensitive, Secretive. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a pastel coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She carries with her a set of pickaxes on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her yellow fur is still thick. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gifted student she started as a Bookbinder, but she got bored and became a Healer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Optimist. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Azurite (11 gp). Coral (50 gp). Red garnet (50 gp).

Description: He sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. He keeps his brass crest in a pixie cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a great chef.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. After coming to the age of reason, Rhogar took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Rhogar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Mentor, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 800 sp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his golden hair down. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

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

Possessions: 2000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 3'2" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Weaver arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he usually wears his green robe and has his shortbow always slung over his shoulder. He keeps his gold crest in a pixie cut. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Rivaan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He tends to his Barrister job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 310 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Eggren was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Brewer. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Revenge; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her silver crest is unkempt and raggedy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Thava is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Thava lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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: To reunite with her absent mother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp.