Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a great chef.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Carnelian (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Coral (140 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on his right side. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Ralf was born the youngest of three triplets. He worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. He struck the Stableman job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries bastard swords. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Hugolina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. 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; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). Amber (90 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).