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: He stands about 4'4" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is cut short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Mason does. He is physically well-built. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A gifted student he started as a Banker, but he got bored and became a Mason. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Banker again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has moderate length blonde hair. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Vondal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Barrister for hire.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Osah was born on a far western island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Glassblower. 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: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a grey scarf. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A freak accident while working with her Sailor father left her crippled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's in love; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 50 gp. 2 Acid flasks.

Description: He stands about 5'0" and wears professional attire. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has auburn hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is greedy

Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Pallabar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and doesn't want to be a dyer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, violet shirt, and brown tie and is in decent physical shape. He has no hair. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp.