Description: Standing 2'10", this woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Nora was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nora decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Onyx (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Korfel will drive conversation. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Performer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her fur is yellow and very short. She has amber eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Through the years after Shivering was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Shivering's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Good lock.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. A friendly and beautiful Human, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Jade (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She is wearing a long, tan cloak. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ilanis will drive conversation. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born into a rich family. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Ilanis has worked very hard to control her curse. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He carries with him a set of crossbows, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His tied-back hair is white. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. The war was a terrible time for him, and Kipper does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Locksmith for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears tattered old clothes. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Caramip was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: He stands about 4'8" and wears a tan shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and grey pants. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. The war was a terrible time for him, and Aerdeth does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Aerdeth liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.