Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears tattered old clothes. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: The child of a Slave Trader, who enjoyed hunting, Nala was taken on many hunting expeditions. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly swords and maces. Her blonde hair is well kept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, tan shirt, and blue tie. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in the west to a Butcher, Agatha learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Butcher. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Agatha fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Amber (50 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mamnen studied abroad. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Farmer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Farmer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 200 gp. Sard (20 gp).

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished longbow as well. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This malnourished woman typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She works hard and plays hard.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Performer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He carries with him a set of rapiers on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His crest is scarlet and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1900 sp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (60 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has dyed his greying red fur a little too much giving a sharp red color. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Shadow was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear black tank tops with red skirt. She wears her bronze crest up. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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 Slave Trader. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Slave Trader for hire.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3000 cp. Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Everburning torch.