Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Ernest is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Ernest lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her flail with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries a battered longsword and tarnished flail as well. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Matilda grew up listening to her mother's many stories. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.