Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair is lengthy. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 80 pp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Shoemaker. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears brown trousers with grey and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: 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: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2800 gp. A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has green eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Paelias has worked very hard to control his curse. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp.