Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Cartwright first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Cartwright and found it very stressful. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he desires power and/or immortality

Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his 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 claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Joker, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. Hematite (4 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a fancy green suit. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a Slave Trader first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wants to raise his children well

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Immigrant, Family, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Balimaar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Balimaar abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and someone believes him a fraud

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Lance was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.