Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Alice is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Alice was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Carter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 sp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Baker responsibilities is difficult; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, In love, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has done her best to style her gray fur to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to be a sellsword again

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs, marred by sweets. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Engong was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Adventurer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Xappan 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. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants, marred by chocolates. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak. She wears her brown fur down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Spear managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: To be a Server again; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Malachite (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Hematite (10 gp).

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Apothecary, and he perpetually has his kukri ready. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Beiro was born the youngest of three triplets. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Apothecary for hire.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 350 gp.