Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His white hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He uses divination through singing.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Secretive, Mundane. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her hair is silver and very short. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. 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: The child of a Fisher, who enjoyed hunting, Jarana was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student she started as a Fisher, but she got bored and became a Cook. She struck the Cook job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Cook responsibilities is difficult.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 11000 gp. Coral (100 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Coral (100 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Jet (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small black clips. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Barber hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has worked as a Barber like her father before her.

Motivation: To be a Barkeep again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 7000 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Rose (30 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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 a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Volen was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Volen's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, and is pretty ugly. His rusty crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Kriv lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He struck the Priest job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp).

Description: This man wears baggy red pantaloons and a green scarf, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Stannor was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1600 pp. 1 Major magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and grey tie. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Verin grew up listening to her father's many stories. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 gp.