Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her falchion, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern woman prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is brown and curly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Aline is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. 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: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Oriel was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Oriel was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Oriel decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and brown tie. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and glaives. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shane 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 Shane. Being a Slave Trader 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: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.