Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and pastel pants. His crest is cut close to his head. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a priest again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Elysande was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His auburn hair is cut short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Nordak 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. Nordak 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. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Amber (70 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has wavy bronze crest. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mishann never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Red spinel (60 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears a fancy brown suit. He is physically well-built. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Taklinn grew up listening to his father's many stories. His first spouse was a Sculptor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a red cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has no hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Corkitron was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He tends to his Actor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Detective again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She wears just a blue suit, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'0" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Buvvie was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears her golden hair down. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Leshanna abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 sp.