Description: 5'6" and muscular, this northern man wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gomory was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bather. He has worked as a Bather like his father before him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Ploughman work with an outfit from a few towns over. Ploughman work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has no hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp).