Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears yellow trousers with green and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Birel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 40 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 21. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about 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: Gimurt was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: She sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and she perpetually has her crossbow ready. She has red hair. She has silver eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Anakis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her childhood dream was to be a Bookbinder, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature crossbow.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'6" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1000 gp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has purple hair. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a Painter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Painter for hire.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10000 cp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She carries with her a set of shortbows on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Half-Plate.