Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length black hair. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

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 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 the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Navigator for hire.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop crest cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the north to a Server, Pijjirik learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Server. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Server for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her lance with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Jo hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is an amazing painter.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 5000 sp. Eye agate (6 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an entirely tan suit with pastel socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Server business.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was taken from her home at a very young age. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's in love

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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 was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; 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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and bastard swords. His golden hair is thinning but still full. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Ar-Beka was born with his father's beautiful face. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and white tie. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He takes great joy in being the best Brewer in town.

History: Vrondiss was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gifted student he started as a Roofer, but he got bored and became a Brewer. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.