Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She got into the Miner business at a young age. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miner.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is silver and very short. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Ahinar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of a Brewer, who enjoyed hunting, Ahinar was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His brown fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Left-Handed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Left-Handed was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Left-Handed's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To be a Soapmaker again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are brown and catlike.

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. Heian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and doesn't want to be a locksmith and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears long strands of aquamarine and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born in the east. His parents enrolled him in a Barbarian school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Engraver responsibilities is difficult; and to be a junk dealer again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1800 pp. Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This light-skinned female wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is a great chef.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She found a children's book about a Halfling Warrior who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by unlife.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and he perpetually has his spear ready. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. The war was a terrible time for him, and Aust does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aust fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.