Description: This northern man wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and golden with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 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: Ribbles was born with his father's beautiful face. 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 left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Golden pearl (110 gp). Amber (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'4", this man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Bounty Hunter, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is renowned for his bright black suits and hats, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He has red eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Valafar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Valafar decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bellfounder 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 Dwarves in the east were limited. 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: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Ostracized due to the psionic 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 was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.