Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her brown hair is cut short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Nikki was born the youngest of three triplets. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is portly but not overly obese. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears just a blue suit. With wild chestnut hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: She was born in the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in a small island village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 2300 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Rose (80 gp). Red garnet (110 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man is renowned for his bright red suits and hats. His red hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents were killed by goblins in a raid when he was still a young child. The goblins captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Revenge; 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: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Onyx (30 gp).