Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are amber and beady.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 4000 gp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his warhammer, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He wears his red hair up. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 struck the Mayor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 gp. White opal (1400 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has wavy golden hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Peren embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Peren hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1400 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Rose (70 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Map Maker for hire.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 14000 sp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. He wears his black hair down. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. Himo is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in a small plains village. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp).