Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has shaved his head bald. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 sp. Blue quartz (7 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He uses divination through singing.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Engraver. Her white hair is still thick. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she usually wears her black robe and has her axe always slung over her shoulder, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Courier they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Sculptor, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a sculptor and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull black iron scale mail, and is pretty ugly. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She has green eyes and a yellow hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears a violet shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Mary was born the youngest of three triplets. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Slave, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This light-skinned female wears dull white sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Jillian embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Jillian hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Jillian was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears brown trousers with grey and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His head has been shaved. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Aldous lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has no crest. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Peridot (80 gp).