Description: She stands about 4'2" and wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Nalaed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and doesn't want to be a performer and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. With wild golden hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 110 gp. Red garnet (160 gp). 1 Superior lock.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her blue hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the east to a Map Maker, Sutha learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Map Maker. Recently the stress of being a Map Maker has made it difficult for her to sleep.

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 expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Forgetful, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'11" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her dark red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Makaria was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Fletcher. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a grey costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Whurbin liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Layabout and was forced into it by his family; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 sp. Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a falchion on her belt. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Apothecary who has hired her part-time. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Driindar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This southern woman dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a red mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Ahinar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: To be a Cartwright again.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.