Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Berrian was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 6000 cp. Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He is portly but not overly obese. His auburn hair is cut short. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Tomi was born the youngest of three triplets. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a brown vest and prefers red and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Riswynn speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He very much looks the part of a Carpenter. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Carpenter. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To be a Slave Trader again; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is long and auburn with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Quillathe was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Guard, but she got bored and became a Bellfounder. She has worked as a Bellfounder like her father before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 sp. Carnelian (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 40 gp. Azurite (7 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cressel fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 3000 cp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is baby faced.

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 is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 gp.