Description: This tall, slender woman wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 89. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Avelina 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 Avelina. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Guard they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Shipwright, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shipwright and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'2" and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has shaved her head bald. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born into a rich family. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears dull yellow sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed halberd, just in case. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He got into the Bowyer business at a young age. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Heian was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 330 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has red 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 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 loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 sp.