Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a very tight haircut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 6000 cp. White pearl (60 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a hunchback. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. Lamlis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the south to a Mason, Lamlis learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Lamlis 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 Lamlis. He tends to his Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 250 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his long black crest kept up in a rat tail. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Through the years after Torinn was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Torinn's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Torinn and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a simple blue robe with violet stripes complete with hood. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a great chef.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears bulky violet painted plate armor. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Theren grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Family, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 sp.