Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Cory lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Cory and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a simple yellow robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His hair is auburn and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Debt. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Roofer. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born in the west. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He has achieved small success as a Roofer.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 12000 cp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. He has a very tight haircut. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Revenge; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. Amber (140 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp).