Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Beggar 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 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.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Banker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Bilga was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Banker. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her white fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Tricking was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2400 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (110 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is typically in his Banker uniform. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his blue hair in a flapper bob. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His childhood dream was to be a Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Banker.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a morningstar, but if one is not available he will default to his axe, and carries axes. He wears his black fur down. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Greedy, Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: She wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She carries with her a set of hammers, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Quelenna is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Quelenna grew up listening to her father's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He has a hunchback. His golden hair is cut short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He got into the Herbalist business at a young age. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Anthony was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Herbalist for hire.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Job, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished pickaxe as well. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Dûshrat was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Average lock.