Description: This northern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Balifra was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she's in love

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bookbinder they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Painter, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Family, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1200 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student he started as a Crown-heir, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This malnourished man is typically in his Laborer uniform. His red hair is knotted and matted. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Rurik hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gifted student he started as a Stylist, but he got bored and became a Laborer. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a stylist again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 gp.