Description: He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and carries morningstars. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. He has amber eyes and a black hat with a red feather.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He uses divination through singing.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He likes to wear brown tank tops with blue pants. His golden hair is still thick. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a Bookbinder first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born in the south. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 7000 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull tan iron scale mail, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her silver eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Seamstress born in the past three hundred years. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born in the west to a Seamstress, Damaia learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered orcs who tried to eat her hand. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: In love, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 pp. A small bag of saffron. (80 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts, and is pretty ugly. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Map Maker profession.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: She is content.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is renowned for her bright pastel dresses and hats. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her copper eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker pastel hat.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Great was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gifted student she started as a Stylist, but she got bored and became a Body Guard. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). White opal (800 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). White opal (800 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Jade (150 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her hair is silver and curly. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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 born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Ea alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and to settle down with her crush

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 5'6", this woman wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a nunchaku on her belt. She wears her golden hair up. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. 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, Margery is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp.