Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Oppleby was taken on many hunting expeditions. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: He was born on a small isolated farm. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man very much looks the part of a Performer and is in decent physical shape. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a great chef.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.