Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Clerebold was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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 feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 gp. Fire opal (1100 gp). Rose (20 gp). Malachite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: Avice is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and she perpetually has her kukri ready. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: Galiena was born with her mother's beautiful face. She worked as a nervous Merchant and found it very stressful. She tends to her Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her ears are large.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Isabella is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.