Description: He stands about 3'4" and typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Silvo was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Silvo decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Ghâm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Laborer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Laborer responsibilities is difficult; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Disease, Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 7000 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (9000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she usually wears her grey robe and has her crossbow always slung over her shoulder. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Nora was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 sp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a brown shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is auburn and curly. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

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. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents enrolled him in a Warlock school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears her white hair up. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her first spouse was a Servant, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An older man who wears dull white sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed greatsword, just in case, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ghâm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Adventurer; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Dilettante but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Jet (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a worn and beaten armor. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Melissa studied abroad. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 500 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.