Description: A 6'0" southern woman, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and white tie. She has slicked back brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Scribe. She carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished dagger as well. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She struck the Scribe job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Full Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This eastern man wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: Justin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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 son.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Rosalind was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Rosalind and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.