Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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 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. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a grey collared shirt and pastel pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has moderate length red hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Diggory isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Diggory was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Dyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A 6'2" northern man, he wears tattered old clothes. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born in the north. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (12 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.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His auburn hair is still thick. His ears are large.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Robert embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Robert hails from a village terrorized by giants. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and many giants want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).