Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mercenary arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She wears a yellow shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. 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 likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. 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 struck the Fortune-teller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears long strands of opal and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her white eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. Bryseis is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is typically in her Unemployed uniform. She has done her best to style her scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has worked as a Unemployed like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and expand her business

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her orange fur up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Right-Handed is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He sports a flattop hair cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Thorin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. After a long history of fighting, Thorin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 gp.