Description: This woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Claira was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. Her tied-back hair is blonde. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'8". He wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; 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

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 sp.