Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a hunchback. He wears his red hair down. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

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

Possessions: 90 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ea 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 Ea. She tends to her Seamstress job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longbows and bastard swords. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Portia was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Portia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a lance on his belt. His blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 110 gp.