Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a simple green robe with white stripes complete with hood. He keeps his dark red hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Balam studied abroad. Balam was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Balam decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rose (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her yellow fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: She is a Interpreter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She uses divination through singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Lone was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear green tank tops with black pants. His crest, while still mostly bronze, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Knight.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 sp. Onyx (20 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Yurgunn is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Mastema was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Mastema's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Hematite (12 gp).