Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is typically in her Guard uniform. Her copper crest is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: 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: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Jet (100 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Sard (20 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears tattered old clothes, marred by teas. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Painter profession.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Alex lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is afraid of men and trembles around them

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Sard (40 gp).