Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Markosian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Slave Trader. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He likes to wear black tank tops with yellow pants, and he perpetually has his greataxe ready. He wears his silver hair down. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Pelaios has worked very hard to control his curse. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1500 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His white crest is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Vrondiss and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Sarah lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.