Description: She stands about 4'0" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright brown hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she has a crush on the local gardener

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She now owns her own business.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'8". He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His black crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the east to a Spice Merchant, Medrash learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 5 Acid flasks.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He has no hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Fargas was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bricklayer. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She dresses like a well dressed Cook does. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She got into the Cook business at a young age. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has achieved small success as a Cook.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her glaive with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Jade (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He has moderate length golden hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Beloril has worked very hard to control his curse. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a pastel poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Darrak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Superior lock.