Description: She stands about 4'2" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the west to a Hunter, Nalaed learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. He has gold crest. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson black hat.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Slave Trader but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He's also a talented Weaver, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail, and carries spears. Her brown hair is still thick. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She got into the Butcher business at a young age. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sai, but if one is not available she will default to her axe. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She got into the Interpreter business at a young age. 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 Interpreter. She struck the Interpreter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new interpreter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a kukri, but if one is not available she will default to her nunchaku. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Tawna was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

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; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His long blue hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her silver eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his yellow robe. He is physically well-built. He has styled his white crest well, parting it to the left. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Quarethon lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quarethon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: The child of a Tanner, who enjoyed hunting, Osco was taken on many hunting expeditions. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 60 gp.