Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has done her best to style her gold crest to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in the west to a Mercenary, Gesrethe learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Mercenary for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Galiena was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Layabout. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Trym was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Assassin. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and doesn't want to be a layabout and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop hair cut. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Map Maker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Masseuse, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Thiala was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Thiala's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a brown vest and prefers green and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is short and golden. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Dain was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Actor. After a long history of fighting, Dain and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and dwarven compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Standing 5'0", this man wears a yellow shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has worked as a Sage like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Locksmith again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She's also a talented Carpenter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 800 sp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). 1 Breastplate.