Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. His copper crest is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. The war was a terrible time for him, and Shedinn does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Emotional, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Poor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born in the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair is red and curly. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Beggar. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Jarsali lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Mortician profession.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (900 gp).