Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Her childhood dream was to be a Spy, but she was a colossal failure. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to be a spy again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Rendar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. Being a Barrister kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears skinny pants and wears a tan and black robe with the hood down. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He is baby faced.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Passionate, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 32000 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears just a brown suit. He wears his gray fur up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Shadow lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Baker

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

Possessions: 40 gp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp).