Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. His blue hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Akmen was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Laborer for hire.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp).

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has wavy white hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her purple hair up. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Manea abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Slave, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She is a Slaad in disguise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.