Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a Glassblower, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new butcher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. After a long history of fighting, Elama and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He is a Lamia in disguise. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Passionate, Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. She has no hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length rusty crest. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. 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. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Eldeth was born with her father's beautiful face. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1100 sp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: He is a mite stocky and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Igden took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up greatsword and armor he uses now. He bought a greatsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a grey shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and grey pants. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. A true patriot, Margery would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Margery lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and she would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Pink pearl (90 gp).

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortbows and shields. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Xappan grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Xappan. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2500 sp. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Thunderstones. 2 Smokesticks.