Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Akta and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears bulky black painted plate armor. His crest is silver and curly. He has red eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Azzakh was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Assassin. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Job, Slave, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 190 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, violet shirt, and black tie, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is short and blonde. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. The war was a terrible time for him, and Beiro does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Beiro never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Cynical, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 6000 sp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and green handkerchief worn on her right side, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She is a Maurezhi in disguise. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: In love, Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Emerald (700 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.