Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His head has been shaved. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Heward speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. 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: Silaqui was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An older woman who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, she is not a threatening figure. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. With wild white hair. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She uses divination through singing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a tan tunic with blue highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp.