Description: He stands about 5'4" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp).

Description: A 5'1" northern man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. He has moderate length chestnut hair. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has achieved small success as a Farmer.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Obsidian (16 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his greatsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His golden hair is braided into rings. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3000 cp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 19000 sp. A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greatsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Rogue school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 120 gp.