Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Naeris is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Shipwright job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver ewer (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is auburn and very short. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is black and curly. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Jade (90 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Jet (90 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Jet (90 gp). Peridot (20 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available he will default to his axe. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Laborer father left him crippled. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp).