Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a Miller, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Navigator for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Job, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 50 pp. Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His auburn hair is lengthy. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Halimath speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a black and red robe with the hood down. He carries with him a set of shortspears on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He keeps his long bronze crest kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Nykkan is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Nykkan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. After a long history of fighting, Nykkan and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to be a mercenary again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 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 skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. With bright black hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 70 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Faran never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: In love, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her ears are large.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Ranala enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Ranala alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. After a long history of fighting, Ranala and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 gp. A small bag of saffron. (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a morningstar on her belt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

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. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her tied-back hair is red. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born in a small desert village. She found a children's book about a Elf Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Leucis was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He tends to his Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 800 gp.