Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her tied-back hair is white. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently the stress of being a Barrister has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 160 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp).

Description: This woman is typically in her Bookbinder uniform. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the west to a Bookbinder, Sorath learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and money/treasure

Flaws: Depressed, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 160 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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 on a small isolated farm. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in an above average manner. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a very tight haircut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Roger was born with his mother's beautiful face. Roger was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Roofer. Being a Roofer 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 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 he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 sp. Red spinel (110 gp).