Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears black trousers with tan and violet striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Bilga was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she tends to wear a large black jacket. She has no hair. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. 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: Balancing her hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Rich, Job. Occupation: Priest

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

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull red iron scale mail. His cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He is baby faced.

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 has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shadow grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears his auburn hair down. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 59. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 gp. Eye agate (11 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 330 gp.