Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Cartwright does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cartwright.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2400 sp. Sard (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a simple black robe with violet stripes complete with hood. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His ears are large.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and wears a worn and beaten armor. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He sports a flattop fur cut. His eyes are copper and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Beast's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His parents enrolled him in a Rogue school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beast fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 24000 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a black costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gunter grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gunter. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-elven people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 pp.