Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Kellen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 290 gp. Azurite (15 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His long red fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a Adventurer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in the west. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Adventurer responsibilities is difficult; and to be a blacksmith again

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp. Jade (130 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Mialee liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Mialee never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Nature, In love, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Theodoric was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Theodoric decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Carter does. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. She has blue eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Xanaphia was born with her father's beautiful face. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Carter like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She got into the Bather business at a young age. Her first spouse was a Dilettante, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Dilettante they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Bather, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by her family; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. After a long history of fighting, Riswynn and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Painter. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and axes. She has moderate length cinnamon fur. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Painter business.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Masterwork manacles.