Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She tends to her Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the east to a Miner, Halimath learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Miner work with an outfit from a few towns over. Miner work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Merchant; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Opinionated, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is physically well-built. Her purple hair is braided into rings. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 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 not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 10 pp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). 1 Thunderstones.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'5" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing a long, blue cloak. With bright chestnut hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.