Description: He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Shump will drive conversation. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born in the east to a Bowyer, Shump learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has worked as a Bowyer like his father before him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Religious, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp).

Description: 3'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She dresses like a well dressed Fletcher does. Her white crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His red fur, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Hedonist, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

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: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the north to a Map Maker, Alice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Brewer, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Map Maker like her mother before her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Map Maker responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This northern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a very tight haircut. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Buckler.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Sannl was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Shoemaker. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Murook was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.