Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and pickaxes. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

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. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 50000 cp. 5 Acid flasks. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This younger middle-aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is black and very short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 600 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His white crest is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kaladan 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 Kaladan. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Azurite (4 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Full Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His auburn hair is lengthy. He has brown eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. After a long history of fighting, Hobart and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 340 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).