Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a grey tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Balifra was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 pp. Rose (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a red scarf. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. After a long history of fighting, Brakka and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 11000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Jade (70 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, John was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. He tends to his Layabout job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Malachite (10 gp).

Description: He very much looks the part of a Stableman. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Hugh was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stableman.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and expand his business

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 7000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Gold and ruby ring (3000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and she perpetually has her mace ready. She has shaved her head bald. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Fistula is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.