Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Ulla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ulla grew up listening to her father's many stories. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1900 sp. Malachite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. 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 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; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Pallabar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Pallabar was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This northern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is black and curly. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Mella is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Shipwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He wears long strands of emerald and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. He is baby faced.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. 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.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. Her silver hair is still thick. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She got into the Spy business at a young age. When Kasdeya reached her early adolescence her Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Moss agate (16 gp).

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Osco grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A gifted student he started as a Cartwright, but he got bored and became a Apothecary. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a grey coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is an epitome of beauty. He has shaved his head bald. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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 is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 sp.