Description: He wears a yellow costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Banker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Knight, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30 gp. Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: Standing 6'5", this woman wears a simple black robe with red stripes complete with hood. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. 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 Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She has moderate length dark red hair. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's in love; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer, Slave, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears baggy white pantaloons and a brown scarf. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Sculptor. She struck the Sculptor job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'10". She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her brown hair is still thick. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top white hat.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 30 pp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is short and golden. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. After a long history of fighting, Ootah and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Herbalist. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Melissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Melissa took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up bastard sword and armor she uses now. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Herbalist responsibilities is difficult; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Family, In love. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 120 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His long scarlet crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 110 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.