Description: She is scrawny and has patchy green crest. She wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a hunchback. Her green crest is long and unkept. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a Mortician first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a great chef.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her red hair is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Ruler soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This light-skinned male wears dark leathers with embroidery. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Roger was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and revenge

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright pastel and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His gray fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Serpent hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but he was a colossal failure. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 90 gp. Amber (70 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to pay off her debts

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'1" when asserting herself. Her dark red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the east to a Map Maker, Sekhmet learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Sekhmet 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 Sekhmet. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small violet clips. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Cecily is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents were killed by orcs in a raid when he was still a young child. The orcs captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He tends to his Shipwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shipwright responsibilities is difficult; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. She wears her red hair up. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Stylist born in the past three hundred years. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Lerissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Stylist for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp.