Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Paelias was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He struck the Doctor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sybil studied abroad. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. Being a Butcher kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To be a Shipwright again; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has done her best to style her green crest to look like a famous performer. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her religion dominates her actions

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Slave, Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Sard (70 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 120 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her rusty crest is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the east to a Priest, Jheri learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'4". She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She sports a flattop hair cut. 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 is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Barbena alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). White opal (1600 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her white hair is long and unkept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born into a rich family. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This younger middle-aged man has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a Gardener, his father struggled to pay the bills. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Olrok never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's in love; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp).