Description: This malnourished woman wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Through the years after Azza was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Azza's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Azza and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 240 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 70 gp. Peridot (50 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His brown hair is cut short. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. 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 to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 6000 cp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. He has no fur. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Art has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown fur is smooth and relatively long. His copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His crest, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 20 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She wears her white hair down. Her silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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 she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 cp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 30 pp. Golden pearl (100 gp).