Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. He has a hunchback. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the west to a Miner, Frederick learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

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

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. He has blue eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Alex grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Detective hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished mace as well. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Hugh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is portly but not overly obese. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He has green eyes.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nicholas 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 Nicholas. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to protect his home

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.