Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her hair is short and brown. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valida 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 Valida. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Server

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born in a small forest village. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 18000 sp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a pastel and black robe with the hood down. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has moderate length yellow fur. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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 got into the Masseuse business at a young age. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she prefers to wear flannel. She wears her white hair up. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: 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; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a violet vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her violet boots flare out at the collars, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a club on his belt and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is long and unkept. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Barber born in the past three hundred years. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He worked as a nervous Barber and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Barber like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Animal Trainer again; and balancing his hectic life and new barber responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and carries glaives. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top blue hat.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Stableman, her father struggled to pay the bills. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

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

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He got into the Butcher business at a young age. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 sp.