Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Manea was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bather. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'9". She wears dull brown sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed pickaxe, just in case, and her gloved hand is found clutching a pickaxe. She wears her brown hair down. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's in love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spy

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

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With bright auburn hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: 20 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Average lock.