Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 3'11" and wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She got into the Locksmith business at a young age. After coming to the age of reason, Nalaed took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To protect her home; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is red and very short. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in the north to a Shipwright, Gennal learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His childhood dream was to be a Performer, but he was a colossal failure. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His tied-back hair is black. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

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. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 30000 cp. Malachite (11 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). White opal (900 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Amber (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a yellow shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She comes from a rich western family. 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 north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and money/treasure

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is cut close to her head. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. 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: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Armorer. He tends to his Armorer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 4'4" and muscular, this western man dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To pay off his debts.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1500 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a fancy grey suit. His red hair is braided into rings. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

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. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Beloril studied abroad. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red spinel (40 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Jade (40 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her black hair is knotted and matted. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Tanner. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Tanner. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Tanner for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 28000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.