Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mara 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 Mara. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants and is in decent physical shape. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length gold crest. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Slave Trader who has hired him part-time. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born in the north to a Slave Trader, Rivaan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Navigator.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her ears are large.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She likes to wear black tank tops with green skirt. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She is baby faced.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Purah was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Dyer like her father before her.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a yellow shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and white pants. She carries with her a set of daggers on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her black hair is well kept. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Many goblins want her driven away; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a hunchback. His white hair is still thick. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born in the west. 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 Bookbinder. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. His orange fur is matted, messy, and big. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Cloak has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 120 pp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

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 chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has amber eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated, Professionalism. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Disguise kit.