Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses like a well dressed Guard does. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in the north to a Guard, Cressel learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Through the years after Cressel was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Cressel's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 sp. A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp).

Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Lagazi was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (5 gp).

Description: Standing 5'6", this man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his orange fur up. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 800 sp. 2 Holy water.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Navigator. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Spice Merchant; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her first spouse was a Farmer, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Emeny studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Shoemaker. Her purple hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: She was born in the north. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 sp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Lagazi fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears skinny pants and wears a white and violet robe with the hood down. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Jo was born the youngest of three triplets. She worked as a nervous Stylist and found it very stressful. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 150 gp.