Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears tattered old clothes. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ilanis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears just a blue suit. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Quarion was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Quarion decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Masseuse kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and 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

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'11". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. The war was a terrible time for him, and Patrick does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Patrick has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears long strands of amber and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and he perpetually has his shortbow ready. His blonde hair is cut short. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aust fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Barfa is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Barfa was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bather. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Architect. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1600 sp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: She wears a brown vest and prefers violet and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'4" when asserting herself. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has yellow eyes and a brown hat with a violet feather.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her crest is cut close to her head. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp. Iolite (20 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has no hair. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She takes great joy in being the best Slave Trader in town.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She struck the Slave Trader job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Slave Trader responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 cp.