Description: Standing 5'4", this woman wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Baelitae never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Navigator; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Rich, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp).

Description: He likes to wear brown tank tops with violet pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and kukris. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Painter for hire.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 pp. White pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a shield on her belt. She has done her best to style her cinnamon fur to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Sweet is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Courier work with an outfit from a few towns over. Courier work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Ar-Karo hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying east to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp.