Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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 son.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Varis was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Crown-heir. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with grey slacks. She has moderate length white hair. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull black iron scale mail. His hair is white and curly. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 50 pp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp).

Description: A 3'3" eastern man, he wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the east. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Sard (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a simple brown robe with violet stripes complete with hood. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 160 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. Her hair is black and very short. Her black eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Phelaia 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 Phelaia. She's also a talented Bellfounder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 7000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Three was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 gp.