Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 pp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). White opal (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Amber (50 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. He has rusty crest. He is baby faced.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Cook. He tends to his Cook job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Locksmith again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Knight arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the west were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 30000 cp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp).