Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her black hair down. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mason business.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She's also a talented Slave Trader, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1200 gp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Jet (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Assassin for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new assassin responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His cinnamon fur is thinning but still full. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a Fletcher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Kite and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His long gold crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Priest. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Tarhun enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tarhun grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tarhun. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Priest for the past few years.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has dyed his greying black fur a little too much giving a sharp black color. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ralf was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a brown collared shirt and violet skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt and is in decent physical shape. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Artin wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warrior, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She also has developed a complete distrust of the Healer profession.

History: Artin lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Artin took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.