Description: A middle-aged woman, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and is pretty ugly. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has gray eyes and a grey hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

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Possessions: 10 pp. Golden pearl (40 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her crest is short and bronze. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 370 pp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: He wears an entirely blue suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His head has been shaved. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Banded agate (7 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 green tunic with violet highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has no hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. The war was a terrible time for her, and Phelaia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, pastel shirt, and white tie, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'9" when asserting herself. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

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. Her parents enrolled her in a Ranger school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and doesn't want to be a servant and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull green iron scale mail. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in the east. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Cockaby 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 Cockaby. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

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Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.