Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Irann is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job, Debt. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Sculptor. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Sculptor. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Fearful, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and red pants. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a fancy brown dress. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: A 4'1" northern man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Thoradin is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Depressed, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Chaedi 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 Chaedi. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blue crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Quespa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She's also a talented Dilettante, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 40 gp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this eastern man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has styled his copper crest well, parting it to the left. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a Barber, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Apothecary hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is black and curly. She has a dull look in her silver eyes.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is a great chef.

History: Purah was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.