Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born in the north. His first spouse was a Miller, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His white hair is braided into rings. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: 4'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Unemployed father left him crippled. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: Born in the west to a Apothecary, Quarion learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Quarion grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Quarion. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and balancing his hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (500 gp).