Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her rusty crest is unkempt and raggedy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 70 pp. Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jocelyn 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 Jocelyn. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2100 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a rapier, but if one is not available he will default to his halberd. His brass crest is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Nykkan was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Silver pearl (90 gp). Azurite (8 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a green cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She keeps her scarlet crest in a pixie cut. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He has no hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.