Description: 5'9" and muscular, this northern man wears bulky violet painted plate armor. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 pp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Erdan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his brown hair down. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Tod was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly glaives and hand crossbows. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Chem 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 Chem. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. He carries a battered axe and tarnished greatsword as well. He wears his white hair down. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.