Description: He is in excellent shape and usually wears his black robe and has his shortspear always slung over his shoulder. His hair is short and dark red. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Mantus wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Bard, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and 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: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

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 takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a performer again

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and grey handkerchief worn on his left side. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has moderate length black crest. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Medrash was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

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; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Slave, Military, Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 sp. Hematite (11 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Fargas was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Fargas's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20 pp. White pearl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her bronze crest is lengthy. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Gifted from a young age, Perra studied abroad. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3100 sp. Malachite (16 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). 2 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Alchemist’s fire.