Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She has done her best to style her silver crest to look like a famous performer. She is baby faced.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe. Her brown hair is still thick. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Joan was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Joan decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 sp. Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a white coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. Being a Shoemaker kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 3 Smokesticks.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is typically in his Beggar uniform. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Gennal liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He struck the Beggar job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. She is portly but not overly obese. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is typically in his Slave Trader uniform. He is physically well-built. He sports a flattop crest cut. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Slave Trader. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Slave Trader. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Slave, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man wears just a tan suit and is in decent physical shape. He has moderate length golden hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Laucian was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Painter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Painter

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

Possessions: 210 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).

Description: This eastern woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Navigator. 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 to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Portia alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Deep green spinel (70 gp).