Description: She is a mite stocky and wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Her hair is short and silver. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ekk isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Ekk hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Detective kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a yellow collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Geva is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the west were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 90 gp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: Standing 5'3", this woman wears a blue collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Shava lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Doctor, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 pp. Azurite (10 gp). Jade (60 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a white shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born in a small plains village. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Sard (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Sard (40 gp). Jade (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.