Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is an epitome of beauty. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull white iron scale mail. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has wavy auburn hair. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Tippletoe wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warlock, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... Tippletoe is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 30 gp. Pink pearl (70 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Thiala was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a green vest and prefers brown and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has rusty crest. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker green hat.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Rose (30 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bellfounder. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Ishte lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Body Guard, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1100 gp. Zircon (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her orange fur is still thick. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Quick was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Performer, but she got bored and became a Glassblower. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To be a Performer again; and balancing her hectic life and new glassblower responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and carries whips. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Slave Trader born in the past three hundred years. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born in a small island village. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Slave Trader for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His dark red hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Skamos lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 6000 cp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp). 1 Good lock.