Description: This woman dresses like a well dressed Healer does, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a colorful flower in her gold crest. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

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 fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her childhood dream was to be a Doctor, but she was a colossal failure. She became a Healer soon after.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Coral (70 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Carter responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 sp. Amber (160 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. She has wavy black hair. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She takes great joy in being the best Stylist in town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His bronze crest is knotted and matted. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Mehen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Silk rope.