Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a worn and beaten armor. She has blonde hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she has a crush on the local barrister

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Performer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Performer. 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: Retire the richest man in the east; and to be a bowyer again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Jet (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her long blue crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a Slave Trader first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Rezena was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His tied-back hair is black. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top grey hat.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Junk Dealer, but he got bored and became a Tailor. He tends to his Tailor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Through the years after Gaaki was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Gaaki's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.