Description: She stands about 5'4" and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Galiena isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2900 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His black hair is cut short. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: Naeris lived on a farm with his father, 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 has worked as a Barkeep like his father before him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy orange fur. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. He has a hunchback. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and money/treasure

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 10 pp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: He wears a violet tunic with brown highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. The war was a terrible time for him, and Everard does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She tends to wear a large pastel jacket. Her cinnamon fur is unkempt and raggedy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. 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 Interpreter. She struck the Interpreter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a tan collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has wavy black hair. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his small tan hat.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: An older woman who dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with yellow slacks, she is not a threatening figure. Her head has been shaved. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Buvvie was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Rock crystal (50 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Armara was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 45000 sp. Malachite (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).