Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Shaká was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Andraste alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears long strands of emerald and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her blue hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are silver.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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, Kali is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Kali lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Jet (140 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a morningstar on her belt. She wears her white hair down. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Apothecary but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 210 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp).