Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 2 Antitoxin. 2 Holy water.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her brown hair down. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her hair is blue and curly. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Seere hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a large brown jacket. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. 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, Hadwisa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A 6'1" southern woman, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has done her best to style her green crest to look like a famous performer. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gold eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This southern man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull white iron scale mail. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Amber (40 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Berrian hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Berrian abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the east, 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 east 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: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'10". She likes to wear white tank tops with brown skirt. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. 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: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She found a children's book about a Halfling 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 drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature lance.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 20 gp.