Description: She is in excellent shape and wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nalaed is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Nalaed lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. She is baby faced.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He wants to get laid; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born into a rich family. Barfa abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bather arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his auburn hair up. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. To his fellows he 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: Aelar hails from a village terrorized by giants. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand his business

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has moderate length red hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

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 lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Navigator. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp.