Description: This light-skinned female is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy golden hair. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Gardener they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Interpreter, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This eastern man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Star ruby (800 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her broad grey hat.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the west to a Mason, Margery learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Dilettante, but she got bored and became a Mason. She has worked as a Mason like her mother before her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears grey trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 70 pp.