Description: She stands about 3'2" and wears baggy blue pantaloons and a black scarf. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Slave Trader. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Tippletoe alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Slave Trader for the past few years.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a black coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. She keeps her long blue hair kept up in a rat tail. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her 18th 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His childhood dream was to be a Glassblower, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Sailor soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

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. Gimurt was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Armorer. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear flannel. His hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears just a tan suit. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Tippletoe is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of a Courier, who enjoyed hunting, Tippletoe was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Tippletoe was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a fancy black suit. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and is pretty ugly. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Ulblyn enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. Her head has been shaved. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a Shipwright first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has worked as a Shipwright like her mother before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 20 gp.