Description: 5'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stylist.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is dressed in earthy colors with a green and grey handkerchief worn on his left side, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His skin is flawless and his white eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Purson was born with his mother's beautiful face. He married young, but lost his spouse to dire rats. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her dark red hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are a pleasant silver.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cook for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 sp. Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has no hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. A true patriot, Norman would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Akmen learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Blue quartz (16 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).