Description: She is lean but muscular and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her tied-back hair is white. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fortune-teller who has hired her part-time. 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 divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Navigator. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). Zircon (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears silk and lounges about seductively, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Duergath never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 90 pp. Obsidian (13 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her ceremonial dagger with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. Her rusty crest is braided into rings. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: Mishann is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mishann never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 13000 sp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: Standing 4'4", this man sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a very tight haircut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Oskar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Engraver they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Farmer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: This woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. Her hair is short and black. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a hunchback. He has red hair. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Varis will drive conversation. The war was a terrible time for him, and Varis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears skinny pants and wears a blue and black robe with the hood down. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Chaedi is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her first spouse was a Spice Merchant, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Butcher but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1400 sp.