Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She is physically well-built. She has wavy white crest. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Hethress has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Terse. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 210 pp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes. She sports red long hair. She has green eyes.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

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 always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the east to a Bookbinder, Marastyr learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Bookbinder and found it very stressful. She struck the Bookbinder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and balancing her hectic life and new bookbinder responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.