Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her hair is short and brown. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Anakis 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 Anakis. Being a Cook kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and white handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Nyx has worked very hard to control her curse. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears an entirely green suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Hematite (9 gp). 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has silver hair. His black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gifted student he started as a Painter, but he got bored and became a Engraver. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 50 pp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Sard (50 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and white pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and scimitars. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Hugh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 60 pp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Jade (60 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Bertram is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is content

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She prefers to wear flannel. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Faral has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.