Description: This northern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Animal Trainer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Animal Trainer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 17th 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He comes from a rich western family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Aramil is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Aramil was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Berrian was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Onyx (60 gp). Amber (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Coral (50 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.