Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She has silver hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and she is content

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a green coat with tan slacks. Her black hair is cut short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

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 mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Emma speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Hematite (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Norman was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Norman's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp).