Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Althaea and her spouse have recently divorced.

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

Flaws: Insane, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 pp. White pearl (150 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her white hair is heavily combed to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Gynk hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black pearl (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. Her fur is gray and curly. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Art was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Actor for the past few years.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Actor and was forced into it by her family; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are blue.

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. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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 would like to get married and retire; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Star rose quartz (80 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Azaki was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Body Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Body Guard work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has worked as a Body Guard like his mother before him.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1500 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Jet (90 gp). Moonstone (60 gp).

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her glaive, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are green and beady.

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 is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Eran never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Moss agate (14 gp).