Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. His hair is silver and curly. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is an amazing painter.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Theren 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. Theren decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Gardener for hire.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Pâsh lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this northern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His gold crest is braided into rings. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Bharash will drive conversation. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Igden was born the youngest of three triplets. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 pp.