Description: She dresses like a well dressed Barrister does. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has worked as a Barrister like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'1". He dresses like a well dressed Painter does, and his gloved hand is found clutching a dagger. He wears his chestnut hair down. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thakrak 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 Thakrak. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Painter for the past few years.

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 has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 40 gp. Malachite (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a black coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She has chestnut hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (400 gp).

Description: He usually wears his violet robe and has his ceremonial dagger always slung over his shoulder. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His head has been shaved. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small violet hat.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Quarion is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quarion fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 120 gp. Onyx (40 gp).