Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a white coat with red slacks. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. 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: Melissa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is typically in her Interpreter uniform. Her red hair is braided into rings. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Bendoo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Interpreter for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 2600 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Painter does, and carries hammers. She sports black long hair. She wears an eyepatch.

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 taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Painter. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Painter.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She dresses like a well dressed Stylist does, marred by chocolates. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Helja is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a Carpenter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stylist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She tends to her Stylist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Spice Merchant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Naal was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He found a children's book about a Elf Aristocrat who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has slicked back brown hair. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Nalaed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His crest is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Mehen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Map Maker. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp. White pearl (140 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'11". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she wants revenge against goblins

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 150 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His parents enrolled him in a Monk school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver pearl (150 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp).