Description: She stands about 2'9" and wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His red hair is lengthy. He has blue eyes and a red hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with red slacks. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When Claira reached her early adolescence her Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Navigator does. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longbows and scythes. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Bree was born with her father's beautiful face. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ranala 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 she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He likes to wear red tank tops with violet pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'4" when asserting himself. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Priest business.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull white iron scale mail. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are violet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful, Racist. Occupation: Carter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 sp. Coral (40 gp).

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. Her blue crest is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic, PTSD. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).