Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His silver hair is braided into rings. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He got into the Bowyer business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has worked as a Bowyer like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This western man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a very tight haircut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Ernest was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 20000 cp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Theodoric hails from a village terrorized by drow. His parents were killed by drow in a raid when he was still a young child. The drow captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born in the west. He worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. He struck the Mercenary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.