Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears an entirely brown suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears her blonde hair down. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Crown-heir. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: Melissa was born the youngest of three triplets. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Crown-heir soon after.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His tied-back hair is brown. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Purban's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Golden pearl (110 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her brass crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a very tight haircut. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a shortspear, but if one is not available she will default to her crossbow. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her long brown fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Tricking was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses like a well dressed Cartwright does. He has moderate length white crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has achieved small success as a Cartwright.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a junk dealer again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 800 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a tan shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Cook. He struck the Cook job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is content

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She carries a battered scimitar and tarnished greataxe as well. Her white hair is braided into rings. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Malquis was born with her mother's beautiful face. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gray eyes and a grey hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Stylist, Avice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to clean up the streets

Bonds: Guardian, Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 gp.