Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of a Map Maker, who enjoyed hunting, Bernard was taken on many hunting expeditions. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Blacksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Blacksmith work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He tends to his Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 15000 cp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Hematite (13 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and pastel robe with the hood down. He is physically well-built. His hair is chestnut and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished pickaxe as well. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 10 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born to a Ploughman, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and to reunite with his absent father

Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Banded mail.