Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses like a well dressed Ploughman does. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are white.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Balam 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 Balam. He's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is physically well-built. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 11000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 3 Holy water. 4 Thunderstones. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His dark red hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Gardener father left her crippled. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Sculptor for hire.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 80 pp.