Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she tends to wear a large tan jacket. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Ellywick liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears long strands of sapphire and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: Makaria is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: An older man who wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Dustin abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

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: Pacifist, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His bronze crest is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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. 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 brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hirrathak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She bought a hammer and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants and is in decent physical shape. His orange fur is lengthy. His yellow eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He tends to his Bounty Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

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

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.