Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears skinny pants and wears a black and brown robe with the hood down. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. Her silver eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shax 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 Shax. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1300 gp. Aquamarine (1300 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a fancy violet dress. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is cut close to her head. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She is a Hag in disguise. Jane liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Sailor profession.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gifted student she started as a Layabout, but she got bored and became a Herbalist. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Acid flasks. 1 Thunderstones. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. With bright brown hair. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and violet handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a hunchback. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Debt. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.