Description: She prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in the south to a Bounty Hunter, Valanthe learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Bounty Hunter and found it very stressful. Recently the stress of being a Bounty Hunter has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A freak accident while working with her Mayor father left her crippled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He got into the Assassin business at a young age. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Sard (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and tan handkerchief worn on her left side. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Beggar but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Lilli was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Beggar work with an outfit from a few towns over. Beggar work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To protect her home; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.