Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her blonde hair up. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Melissa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: An older man who wears just a black suit, he is not a threatening figure. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature, In love. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'3" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is brown and curly. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Hadwisa 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. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Rose (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a simple grey robe with black stripes complete with hood. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. He has moderate length golden hair. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Reirak was born with his mother's beautiful face. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. With bright red hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Philomena was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Philomena's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 800 sp.