Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His gold crest is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. She carries with her a set of nunchakus on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He wears just a white suit. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His auburn hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sellsword arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Rock crystal (20 gp).

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).