Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is physically well-built. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears tattered old clothes. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Citrine (50 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her first spouse was a Doctor, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record, Military, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is black and curly. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Aldous is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.