Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He is an epitome of beauty. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Eye agate (10 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He is physically well-built. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Garl was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1100 gp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. With wild silver hair. Her ears are large.

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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

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 died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fistula 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 Fistula. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Peridot (50 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing a long, white cloak. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Fistula lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has moderate length blonde hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bertram is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. She has wavy white hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She got into the Banker business at a young age. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.