Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Poor, In love. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden pearl (160 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Red garnet (160 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, violet shirt, and tan tie. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. Her white eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Sorath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Dyer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 80 pp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has wavy red hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather, marred by sweets. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 18000 sp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (80 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is silver and very short. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Body Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

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

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has no hair. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Tiaathque was born the youngest of three triplets. A gifted student she started as a Laborer, but she got bored and became a Painter. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 gp.