Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her green crest is knotted and matted. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Nala managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Guardian, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle and is in decent physical shape. He has a very tight haircut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Banker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Banker and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Bookbinder work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bookbinder work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Siffress never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 gp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears tan trousers with blue and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a worn and beaten armor, and is pretty ugly. His long lavender fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: Dynamic hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Dynamic was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Roofer.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new roofer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 4'1", this man wears a brown vest and prefers violet and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is golden and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the south were limited. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge and is in decent physical shape. His blue hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 16000 cp. Jasper (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Naill enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and tan handkerchief worn on her right side. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker violet hat.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Juliana was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fortune-teller hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Juliana fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 sp.