Description: This tall, slender woman is typically in her Beggar uniform. She has slicked back black hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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-brother.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family, Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This southern woman wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and grey pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has wavy white hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Dyer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Ilga was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He has moderate length golden hair. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Alston's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His green crest is braided into rings. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gorbundus will drive conversation. He takes great joy in being the best Sculptor in town.

History: Gorbundus was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Sculptor. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To be a Soapmaker again; and balancing his hectic life and new sculptor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 18000 cp. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp.