Description: A 5'6" southern man, he dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with grey slacks. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He tends to his Courier job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Pearl was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Pearl decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is long and silver with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears her auburn hair down. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Eva abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 4 Acid flasks.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and black handkerchief worn on her right side. She keeps her long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

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. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a Bather, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her childhood dream was to be a Bather, but she was a colossal failure. She struck the Hunter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 120 gp.