Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has no hair. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 57. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. With bright white hair. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Apothecary but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he very much looks the part of a Merchant. He has chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Paelias was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Paelias's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Paelias and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.