Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker red hat.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 Assassin. 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: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and brown pants. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a long, green cloak. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: A 5'2" northern woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Forgetful, Insane. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears tattered old clothes. She has slicked back golden hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a great chef.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has blonde hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Theriatis has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Theriatis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dull red sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed dagger, just in case. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 sp.