Description: This eastern man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born in the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his dark red hair in a pixie cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His blue crest is knotted and matted. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2200 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings, and is pretty ugly. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 45000 sp.

Description: This northern man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Kâka was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. White pearl (70 gp).