Description: This tall, slender woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Shava was born the youngest of three triplets. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and someone believes her a fraud

Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his scarlet crest up. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Pandjed was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

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. Fivin abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Malquis and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Malachite (16 gp).