Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortspear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, marred by teas. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is an amazing painter.

History: Nogu hails from a village terrorized by orcs. 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: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears violet trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, and she perpetually has her whip ready. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Shanairla 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. Shanairla decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This light-skinned female wears long strands of sapphire and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Guard arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. Her black hair is braided into rings. She is baby faced.

Personality: Criella speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Criella was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Seamstress. 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.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. Her gray fur, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To be a Barrister again; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.