Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the south to a Bellfounder, Ûkshak learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has worked as a Bellfounder like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp. Amber (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: A powerful slaver made her what she is. 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 Performer soon after.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; 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: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has white hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a great chef.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Eldon took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red spinel (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sickles and bows. He wears his black hair down. His eyes are silver and beady.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

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. Balam was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Balam decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has wavy red hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She found a children's book about a Gnome Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Stylist for hire.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Heather has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are green.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Professionalism, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears dull white sweaters, loose yellow pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. His hair is silver and curly. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He takes great joy in being the best Bricklayer in town.

History: Bulzo was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 900 pp. Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Moss agate (13 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of emerald and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her gold crest has been sun bleached extensively. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Junk Dealer profession.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She tends to her Barkeep job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 40 pp.