Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a red tunic with grey highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is black and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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 daughter.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Kithri 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. Kithri 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Animal Trainer; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Hematite (12 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp).

Description: He wears a simple tan robe with white stripes complete with hood. He carries with him a set of warhammers, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 35000 sp. Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'5", this woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Makaria lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 13000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: The child of a Painter, who enjoyed hunting, Rurik was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Spy arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; 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

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 90 gp. Jade (140 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp).