Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. He has chestnut hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. Onyx (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. A true patriot, Aramil would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in the north to a Merchant, Aramil learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Spice Merchant, but he got bored and became a Merchant. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spice Merchant they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Merchant, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Tourmaline (130 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His head has been shaved. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.