Description: This malnourished man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His childhood dream was to be a Carter, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3000 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Sard (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears long strands of amber and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He struck the Map Maker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp).

Description: He wears a black armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Mundane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'7" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Laucian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Laucian 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: A deep hatred of giants; and many giants want him driven away

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Uthemar 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. Uthemar decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 sp.