Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She usually wears her tan robe and has her bow always slung over her shoulder. Her tied-back hair is black. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mardnab 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 Mardnab. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Engong was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Engong decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2200 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1400 gp. Peridot (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Black opal (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'5", this man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his red crest up. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

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. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Arjhan was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Religious, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.