Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born in the south. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Ivellios alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tourmaline (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this western man wears a blue shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He comes from a rich western family. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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 greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 gp. White pearl (60 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). White opal (1300 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His tied-back hair is blonde. He has amber eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Aelar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Aelar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aelar decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bookbinder for the past few years.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 2000 gp. Star ruby (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp).