Description: She wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available she will default to her glaive. She carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished glaive as well. She has slicked back brown hair. She has green eyes.

Personality: Malquis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. 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. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jocelyn 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 Jocelyn. Being a Glassblower kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy white suit. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gifted student he started as a Junk Dealer, but he got bored and became a Miner. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she usually wears her grey robe and has her rapier always slung over her shoulder. She has moderate length brown hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has no hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

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. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. 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 wants to get laid; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Jet (110 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She keeps her white crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes are red.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Zykroff lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Zykroff 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. Zykroff decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2300 gp.