Description: This woman dresses like a well dressed Assassin does. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She wears her white hair down. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valida grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Valida. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Guard again; and she is content

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears white painted combat armor at almost all times and is in decent physical shape. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Dilettante profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She struck the Slave Trader job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carpenter. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Kipper is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a great chef.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a Masseuse, her mother struggled to pay the bills. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 9000 cp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Jet (140 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.