Description: 5'11" and muscular, this northern man wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His head has been shaved. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1200 gp. White opal (1100 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is golden and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his youth he was a Bellfounder, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He wears his blonde hair up. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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. After a long history of fighting, Theobald and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This northern man wears a yellow coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has white hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Gunter was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bounty Hunter. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bounty Hunter for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bounty Hunter responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a whip on his belt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His black hair is thinning but still full. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of a Scribe, who enjoyed hunting, Tim was taken on many hunting expeditions. Tim liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Azurite (11 gp).