Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She tends to wear a large black jacket. Her red hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shax 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 Shax. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 3'0" and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Jo hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Jo alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has a crush on the local shipwright

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Roofer, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ghaliver studied abroad. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He struck the Roofer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His head has been shaved. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 sp.