Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 gp. Zircon (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'7", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Qualen's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Born in the south to a Sellsword, Fabien learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has achieved small success as a Sellsword.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. 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 greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Nicholas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp.