Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the right. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Helja was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Locksmith.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 700 pp. Hematite (16 gp). Coral (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'10" and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his brown hair up. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Valafar was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Valafar's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Valafar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (80 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (7000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (80 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She wears a yellow coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She has no hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 12000 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He likes to wear violet tank tops with brown pants. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Shane is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 5000 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Red spinel (80 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His crest is copper and very short. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Trynnicus was born with his mother's beautiful face. Through the years after Trynnicus was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Trynnicus's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 pp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and black tie. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the north. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 pp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Rose (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her crest is short and silver. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Jezean was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp).