Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Philantrophist, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Rose (20 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears professional attire. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. The war was a terrible time for him, and Caeldrim does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Caeldrim was born with his mother's beautiful face. 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. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Caeldrim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 12000 sp. Silver ewer (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'8" northern man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He worked as a nervous Sailor and found it very stressful. He became a Sailor soon after.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (15 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Jade (110 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aerdeth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2100 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Weaver. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).