Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries a battered trident and tarnished bow as well. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. His head has been shaved. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 29000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His black hair is cut short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. 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, Conrad is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Conrad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Conrad was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: An older man who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), he is not a threatening figure. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a guard and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Carnelian (40 gp).