Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Scribe. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and to be a spy again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 8 Acid flasks.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is short and white. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Onyx (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 3'0". She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Holy water.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blue hair, when down, is lengthy. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his top green hat.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: A 5'7" southern man, he wears an entirely brown suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ploughman. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This northern man wears bulky green painted plate armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red crest is matted, messy, and big. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. After a long history of fighting, Dadalan and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a white shirt, with a brown mid length shorts with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He carries a battered shield and tarnished lance as well. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Burto took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up lance and armor he uses now. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born into a rich family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Performer for hire.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is a great chef.

History: Erky was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.