Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'7" when asserting herself. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Mialee was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Scribe, but she got bored and became a Actor. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She's in love; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 110 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp).

Description: He wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants, and carries bastard swords. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has wavy auburn hair. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a Carpenter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Jeweler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with grey slacks. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Terse, Hedonist, Insane. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a fancy black dress. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Spice Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. 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 in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Vorka was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by her family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 sp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She wears a grey costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. She carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished warhammer as well. Her red hair is long and unkept. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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. Sarah fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is physically well-built. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is an amazing painter.

History: Ugarth was born with his father's beautiful face. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.