Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'8". She wears professional attire, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shield. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Birel hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her childhood dream was to be a Spy, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Layabout.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and blue robe with the hood down. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is dark red and very short. She has a dull look in her black eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student she started as a Miller, but she got bored and became a Architect. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Architect and was forced into it by her family; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Virra was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a white shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Marigold was born the youngest of three triplets. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Secretive, PTSD, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has slicked back red hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a Seamstress first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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 a small mountains village. Nora liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Seamstress responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in earthy colors with a black and pastel handkerchief worn on his left side. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Trynnicus is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, marred by teas. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Katherine hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30 gp. Coral (50 gp).