Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Heather will drive conversation. 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: Heather was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Extrovert, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is short and blue. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Xappan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 pp. Black pearl (700 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. His gold crest is heavily combed to the left. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Terse, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a blue shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and grey pants. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Symma's homeland. Symma decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 90 gp.