Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished dagger as well. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Pink pearl (80 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Disguise kit. 1 Silk rope. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks, marred by chocolates. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 130 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Aura was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Through the years after Aura was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Aura's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His crest is scarlet and very short. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Arjhan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 50 pp. Eye agate (12 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with pastel colored cloaks and clothing. She keeps her long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 31000 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her black fur is knotted and matted. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Moon lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2300 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is always cut to a buzz. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Hadarai 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. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Locksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her brown hair is still thick. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Kasdeya was born with her mother's beautiful face. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Kasdeya and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100000 cp.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and violet handkerchief worn on his left side. He carries with him a set of swords, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Soapmaker who has hired him part-time. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in the north to a Soapmaker, Nicor learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Bricklayer, but he got bored and became a Soapmaker. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has a crush on the local bricklayer

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 37000 sp. Coral (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.