Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is short and black. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1300 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a green shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Halimath hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Halimath alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A 5'4" northern man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Anselm grew up listening to his father's many stories. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. After a long history of fighting, Anselm and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 sp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears just a black suit. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is short and silver. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Family, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).