Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her dark red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Akta lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Shepherd, 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 marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has moderate length white hair. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is mildly Half-Orc supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. A gifted student she started as a Courier, but she got bored and became a Laborer. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 pp. Citrine (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze, and carries hand crossbows. Her blue hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Shax was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Body Guard. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Amber (100 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His gold crest is heavily combed to the right. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He takes great joy in being the best Engraver in town.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He became a Engraver soon after.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Engraver and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His crest is brass and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

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. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hand crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Miner

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

Possessions: 2300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'10" northern woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has wavy blue hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. After coming to the age of reason, Azza 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 2100 gp. White pearl (140 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her blue hair is knotted and matted. Her black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. Her addictions have taken their toll on her wallet, and she has found herself with a great deal of debt owed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Debt. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2300 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is typically in his Engraver uniform. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Habor does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Habor has worked very hard to control his curse. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Engraver for the past few years.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and expand his business

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp).