Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a simple white robe with black stripes complete with hood, and is pretty ugly. His hair is short and silver. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Ortegar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'7", this man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Cook business.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He struck the Cook job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His rusty crest is still thick. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 3000 sp. Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Rose (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is physically well-built. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is a Navigator first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.