Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with red colored cloaks and clothing. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vani grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vani. Being a Mason kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Amethyst (130 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He carries with him a set of lances, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Shipwright. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He worked as a nervous Shipwright and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Shipwright for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. She is physically well-built. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. 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: 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. After a long history of fighting, Jasmine and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. His hair is chestnut and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.