Description: This woman wears just a yellow suit. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: Xappan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Xappan was born with his father's beautiful face. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. 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: Nicor hails from a village terrorized by giants. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Murook was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This malnourished man usually wears his brown robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Barendd was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Laborer. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a large black jacket. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her brass crest is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Being a Junk Dealer 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 comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insane, Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 150 gp. Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

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 was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Rich, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. His hair is silver and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and doesn't want to be a laborer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp. Black pearl (300 gp).