Description: A 3'2" southern woman, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Through the years after Nissa was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Nissa's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has worked as a Sculptor like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new sculptor responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Carnelian (30 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her bronze crest is lengthy. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: 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; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Gûnd is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Gûnd was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Bhevek hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 sp. Jade (140 gp).