Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Slave Trader profession.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 50000 cp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Red garnet (150 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With wild red hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is long and unkept. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. 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: Gorga was born the youngest of three triplets. Her childhood dream was to be a Architect, but she was a colossal failure. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and many orcs want her driven away

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record, Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a black collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He keeps his bronze crest in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and clubs. Her black crest is still thick. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Vezera hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He has violet eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She takes great joy in being the best Miller in town.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Miller. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Miller for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Miller responsibilities is difficult; and to be a dilettante again

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.