Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. This gold eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Shamash was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (50 gp).

Description: She wears a fancy yellow dress, and carries swords. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the left. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Mella was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This dark-skinned female prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Solid gold idol (500 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (20 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. She has black hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Delre grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Delre. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'11" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student he started as a Dyer, but he got bored and became a Actor. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She dresses like a well dressed Fisher does. Her blonde hair is still thick. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of a Weaver, who enjoyed hunting, Sariel was taken on many hunting expeditions. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Sariel's homeland. Sariel decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To be a Weaver again; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Mara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 cp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a tan shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and red pants and is in decent physical shape. Her silver hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears an eyepatch.

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 is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Faral liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

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

Possessions: Just what you see.