Description: This light-skinned female wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Spy, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Glassblower hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has worked as a Glassblower like her mother before her.

Motivation: She's in love; and expand her business

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and swords. She has wavy rusty crest. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Layabout kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Volen is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Volen lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Volen was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Volen decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This man wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His gray fur is greasy and uncared for. His yellow eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear flannel. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. He sports a flattop crest cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who wears white painted combat armor at almost all times, she is not a threatening figure. She has red hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Doctor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She works hard and plays hard.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has worked as a Doctor like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.