Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a black shirt with thin red vertical stripes and white pants. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Slave Trader first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He became a Slave Trader soon after.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 33000 sp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears bulky black painted plate armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has dyed her greying copper crest a little too much giving a sharp copper color. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Quespa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She tends to her Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

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

Ideals: Opinionated, Joker. Bonds: Slave, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Bree alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 60 pp. Malachite (6 gp).