Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His head has been shaved. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears professional attire. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy auburn hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a Bowyer, her father struggled to pay the bills. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She keeps her silver crest in a pixie cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ruloth was born on a far eastern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bricklayer. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and violet handkerchief worn on her right side. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her head has been shaved. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.