Description: 5'2" and muscular, this southern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her silver hair is well kept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. 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, Arara is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has worked as a Sage like her mother before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Job, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. She wears her silver hair up. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Sarai was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He keeps his purple hair in a pixie cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Melech was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has wavy white hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Hunter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jacoba 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 Jacoba. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 230 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).