Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ploughman. He's also a talented Healer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp).

Description: A 4'11" western man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 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 with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gifted student he started as a Stableman, but he got bored and became a Spy. Recently the stress of being a Spy has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp).