Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Baker. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Abalaba never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). A small bag of saffron. (10 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She sports blonde long hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lidda grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A 5'6" western woman, she wears professional attire. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is typically in his Sculptor uniform. He wears his red hair up. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a great chef.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sculptor responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 3100 gp.

Description: A 6'8" southern woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She keeps her bronze crest in a flapper bob. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Servant, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her childhood dream was to be a Servant, but she was a colossal failure. She's also a talented Servant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older man who wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is short and blonde. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Terse, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. Pink pearl (130 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her long red crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Kava hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Being a Glassblower kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 70 pp.