Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Ekk is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on her right side. Her white hair is braided into rings. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Barbena is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Painter. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She wears a fancy black dress. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her black eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Servant. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 sp. A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp).

Description: This man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.