Description: This eastern woman is wearing a long, brown cloak. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Helgret liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Akmen was taken on many hunting expeditions. Akmen was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man has the majority of his body covered in plate and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and chestnut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Raam was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Raam decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.