Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, white shirt, and blue tie. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Beggar. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Beggar for hire.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her brass crest is greasy and uncared for. She has red eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sage hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 330 gp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: She dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She carries with her a set of warhammers on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a Dyer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Varis 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 Varis. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has moderate length brass crest. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears long strands of amber and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and to protect her home

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He is an epitome of beauty. He has shaved his head bald. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Drogo took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, blue shirt, and brown tie, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'11" when asserting himself. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. His silver hair is braided into rings. His white unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He struck the Laborer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.