Description: She dresses like a well dressed Cook does. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has amber eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the east to a Cook, Aline learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Through the years after Aline was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Aline's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cook.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Geva lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. His white hair is singed and shortened. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Being a Stableman kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp).