Description: This dark-skinned female wears black trousers with violet and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Shy, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her hair is long and white with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born to a Cook, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and shortspears. He wears his auburn hair up. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bricklayer for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a tan collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a tattooed face.

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 is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a Sailor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Bilbron 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. Bilbron 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and 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

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is long and red with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 loathes his own lifestyle; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp. White pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a green broad hat and green clothes. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Armorer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She tends to wear a pastel poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her yellow fur is knotted and matted. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Dagger was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Bookbinder. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Bookbinder and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. 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: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Bryseis has worked very hard to control her curse. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'10" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Elizabeth grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Elizabeth. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 sp. Zircon (50 gp).