Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Artin was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. When Artin reached her early adolescence her Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 sp. Silver pearl (120 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Malachite (8 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a brown mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Falkrunn grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Falkrunn was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Falkrunn decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: She wears a blue coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Myathethil was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. 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 Crown-heir. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has no hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is white and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 110 gp.