Description: He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and red pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly clubs and pickaxes. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: Balam speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. 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: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 20000 cp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has no hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 60 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Carter father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Hedonist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 700 gp. White pearl (120 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'2". She wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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 seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a worn and beaten armor, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

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. 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 has never given up on her poetry dream.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. Her silver hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Bardryn 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 Bardryn. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: 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; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 40 gp. Moss agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a yellow coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. He has hazel eyes and a yellow hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A freak accident while working with his Sage mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1900 sp.