Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Azurite (8 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her black hair is heavily combed to the left. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Through the years after Shava was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shava's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 130 pp. Pink diamond (2000 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Slave Trader. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).