Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears professional attire. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is a great chef.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 26000 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 10000 cp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and he perpetually has his falchion ready. He has wavy auburn hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Adam grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Through the years after Adam was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Adam's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Ernest speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 south. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 14000 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).