Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has moderate length brown hair. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Arnold grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Arnold. Being a Laborer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: Standing 6'3", this man is dressed in an above average manner. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a white coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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 daughter.

History: Norman was born the youngest of three triplets. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

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

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears professional attire. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp.