Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has silver hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 210 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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: Gerald hails from a village terrorized by brigands. At a young age his father died while driving off some brigands. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in greataxe use. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and carries glaives. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Cartwright profession.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His first spouse was a Barrister, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple black robe with blue stripes complete with hood. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 gp.