Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Performer.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again.

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 80 gp. Chrysoberyl (100 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. Her head has been shaved. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Ella's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 70 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: This malnourished man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fletcher. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are blue.

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 able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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: He's looking for his big break; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she usually wears her yellow robe and has her halberd always slung over her shoulder. She has wavy black hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in a small plains village. A gifted student she started as a Bellfounder, but she got bored and became a Marshal. Being a Marshal 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: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length gray fur. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. After a long history of fighting, Shifting and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Iolite (30 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Ratanák took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his blue hair up. He has red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Pelaios was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pelaios grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pelaios. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mercenary business.

History: She was born into a rich family. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Mercenary for hire.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.