Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a yellow vest and prefers green and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gilbert grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair is silver and curly. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Malachite (11 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Moss agate (11 gp).

Description: 6'4" and muscular, this northern man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His black hair is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his small blue hat.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Theodoric grew up listening to his mother's many stories. 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and chestnut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Tim is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Tim was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shepherd. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.