Description: 3'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing a long, brown cloak. She sports red long hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Barbena is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull green iron scale mail. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a very tight haircut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He uses divination through singing.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has slicked back white hair. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears professional attire. Her green crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Mortician hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her lance with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is long and black with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small white clips. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. The war was a terrible time for her, and Euphemia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She got into the Masseuse business at a young age. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: A 3'0" eastern man, he wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Roofer like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new roofer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: This malnourished man sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is auburn and very short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Fallond embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. He works hard and plays hard.

History: The child of a Banker, who enjoyed hunting, Fallond was taken on many hunting expeditions. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Hunter. He became a Hunter soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new hunter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears dull blue sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed longbow, just in case. His hair is blonde and curly. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kellen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 cp.