Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: He was born at the edge of vast island. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. 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: Regain custody of his daughter; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Rich, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears tattered old clothes. His hair is brown and curly. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mortician but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Simon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Opinionated, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a white coat with tan slacks. He carries a battered flail and tarnished kukri as well. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Barendd lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. He tends to his Doctor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 40 gp.