Description: He is a mite stocky and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Through the years after Direcris was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Direcris's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Holy water. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is black and very short. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 cp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears professional attire. She wears her white hair down. She is baby faced.

Personality: Murook speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Murook was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She carries with her a set of greataxes on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. 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: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Monk school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shava grew up listening to her mother's many stories. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Shava never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 130 gp.