Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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. Makaria was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Makaria decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. Rose (20 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: She sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She is physically well-built. Her hair is short and blonde. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a grey collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Gardener. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a large black jacket. His black crest is lengthy. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents enrolled him in a Warrior school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are silver.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a fancy tan dress. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. 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 mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Beggar hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 cp.