Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has a hunchback. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Malquis was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears skinny pants and wears a green and white robe with the hood down. His brown hair is knotted and matted. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

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

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is brown and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'3". She wears a black vest and prefers pastel and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her head has been shaved. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Murook was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. Being a Miner kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has shaved his head bald. His ears are large.

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. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a black armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears long strands of ruby and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 120 gp.