Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She takes great joy in being the best Mortician in town.

History: She got into the Mortician business at a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Mortician. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and many giants want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'6". She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has dyed her greying copper crest a little too much giving a sharp copper color. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. 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: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A gifted student she started as a Healer, but she got bored and became a Junk Dealer. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and to settle down with her crush

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Nordak was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Sculptor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A 4'7" southern woman, she is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sellsword business.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Herleva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 50 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Crown-heir and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Aquamarine (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak. He carries with him a set of shortspears, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his gold crest in a flapper bob. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. After a long history of fighting, Kerkad and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand his business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 90 gp. Iolite (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp).