Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and red. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his silver hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a great chef.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's in love

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Alex lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a red coat with tan slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Marshal profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Marshal again.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is content.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. Zircon (40 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Citrine (40 gp).