Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. 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 a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A freak accident while working with her Mercenary mother left her crippled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: 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; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and white tie. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greataxes and halberds. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Dûshrat was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Dûshrat decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Carrie enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. Zircon (60 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'0" and wears baggy black pantaloons and a green scarf. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Drenna hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Drenna was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Odo was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Fortune-teller. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Qemuel was born with his father's beautiful face. In his youth he was a Hunter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Qemuel fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Being a Architect kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Coral (90 gp).