Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His crest, while still mostly gold, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He worked as a nervous Barber and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She tends to wear a large tan jacket, and carries daggers. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Architect business.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This western man tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a very tight haircut. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, his father struggled to pay the bills. Through the years after Efferil was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Efferil's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Efferil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He carries with him a set of spears, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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: He feels threatened by others; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the right. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Drenna took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 15000 cp. Silver pearl (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a worn and beaten armor. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He dresses like a well dressed Stableman does. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gifted student he started as a Layabout, but he got bored and became a Stableman. He has worked as a Stableman like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her green robe. She has no hair. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Torbera has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp.