Description: This younger middle-aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in the west. Ekk was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ekk decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Gardener 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is physically well-built. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Cairn abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is brown and curly. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Ulfgar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her tied-back hair is black. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Tailor born in the past three hundred years. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born into a rich family. She worked as a nervous Tailor and found it very stressful. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a hunchback. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mayor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mayor business.

History: Born in the south to a Mayor, Mara learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.