Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a black top hat and black clothes. Her purple hair is braided into rings. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Akta was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Akta was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Banker. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is an epitome of beauty. She has moderate length brown hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and 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

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by teas. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stableman hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has worked as a Stableman like her father before her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is white and very short. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His first spouse was a Brewer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Addict, Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: A 4'3" southern man, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He uses divination through singing.

History: Tordek hails from a village terrorized by giants. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tordek grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tordek. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 sp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp).