Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Roland was born the youngest of three triplets. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a black tunic with pastel highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. 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: John was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 60 pp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a simple blue robe with green stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gunter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jocelyn grew up listening to his father's many stories. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Coral (40 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears dull tan sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed spear, just in case. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Hugh hails from a village terrorized by giants. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).