Description: She prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in the south to a Bounty Hunter, Valanthe learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Bounty Hunter and found it very stressful. Recently the stress of being a Bounty Hunter has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A freak accident while working with her Mayor father left her crippled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He is baby faced.

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. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He got into the Assassin business at a young age. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Sard (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and tan handkerchief worn on her left side. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Beggar but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She got into the Beggar business at a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has worked as a Beggar like her mother before her.

Motivation: To protect her home; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has wavy brown hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

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. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears a brown vest and prefers yellow and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her left hand. Her gray fur is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He tends to wear a large green jacket. He has a hunchback. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He's also a talented Herbalist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: This southern woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is short and chestnut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new barber responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 11000 sp. Eye agate (11 gp). Jet (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.