Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has amber eyes and a blue hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Qualen is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She has moderate length white hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She takes great joy in being the best Performer in town.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (7 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright white hair. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed blue hat.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male 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 tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His ears are large.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 2'8", this woman is wearing a long, white cloak. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Pacifist, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: This dark-skinned female typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Rosamund alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has worked as a Spice Merchant like her mother before her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Spy kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 120 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she likes to wear red tank tops with yellow skirt. Her auburn hair is cut short. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Fortune-teller. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Dilettante they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Fortune-teller, and she later adopted a second daughter.

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

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He carries with him a set of shields, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1700 sp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.