Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a black vest and prefers pastel and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Surina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 700 sp. Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears just a red suit. She has a hunchback. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a blue coat. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

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. Cumpen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears just a pastel suit. His gray fur is smooth and relatively long. He has amber eyes and a pastel hat with a red feather.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shivering studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. He has worked as a Crown-heir like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Rose (80 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Verna 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. A gifted student she started as a Courier, but she got bored and became a Map Maker. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Pink pearl (100 gp).