Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears professional attire. His red hair is braided into rings. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Norman will drive conversation. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Norman fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2900 sp. White opal (600 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in the north to a Courier, Roger learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a red vest and prefers tan and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Anselm took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up hammer and armor he uses now. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Crown-heir.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 14000 cp. Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Simple lock. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a simple red robe with black stripes complete with hood. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Justin grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1200 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). 1 Minor magic item.