Description: A 6'10" southern man, he wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Stableman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is matted, messy, and big. Her ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Nalaed abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: An older woman who dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a red coat with green slacks, she is not a threatening figure. With bright chestnut hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Guard but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Galiena was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and 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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 cp. Jade (100 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Andraste lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student she started as a Roofer, but she got bored and became a Spice Merchant. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Andraste never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her yellow fur is knotted and matted. Her eyes are yellow.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. 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: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is portly but not overly obese. His red crest is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Shedinn hails from a village terrorized by giants. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 sp. Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She comes from a rich western family. 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Dyer responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Hematite (5 gp).

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the east. 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 Assassin. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Assassin for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Assassin responsibilities is difficult; and to be a stableman again

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.