Description: This man wears tattered old clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his right hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 70 gp. Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Giselle 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 Giselle. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He has dyed his greying brass crest a little too much giving a sharp brass color. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scimitar.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 10 pp.