Description: This man is very fat, and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Manfred was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1200 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and white. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His auburn hair is still thick. His ears are large.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 30 gp.