Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her crest is gold and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His black hair is knotted and matted. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Halander was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Halander abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp).

Description: 3'11" and muscular, this eastern man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Rurik was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Amber (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Sard (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Black opal (900 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a simple brown robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. His fur is black and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Cloak is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hollow voice

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

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 4'9". She wears a violet coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head, and her gloved hand is found clutching a flail. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD, Depressed. Bonds: Military, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 cp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears brown trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are blue.

Personality: Taklinn wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warlock, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Taklinn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

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

Possessions: 200 gp.