Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has slicked back silver hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

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 mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Tanner.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mousy voice

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

Description: This malnourished man wears just a green suit. He has no crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Red garnet (120 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Jade (120 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a club on her belt. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She sports brown long hair. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her red hair is still thick. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jo grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 700 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp).