Description: This northern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 sp. Coral (110 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is silver and very short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His blue hair is thinning but still full. His white eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sammal hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Tailor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His fur is cut close to his head. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She worked as a nervous Hunter and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To protect her home; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: In love, Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple yellow line shooting up and back down. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her top tan hat.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Buvvie is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His copper crest is still thick. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He became a Carpenter soon after.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.