Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Balifra 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 Balifra. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Bonds: Job, Military, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is a Animal Trainer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He takes great joy in being the best Animal Trainer in town.

History: Erevan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Dyer again; and balancing his hectic life and new animal trainer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Eye agate (13 gp).

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. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has decided he is irredeemable

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

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a blue top hat and blue clothes, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her golden hair is well kept. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears just a red suit. His hair is black and curly. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Fargas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: The child of a Animal Trainer, who enjoyed hunting, Alexandre was taken on many hunting expeditions. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 12000 sp.