Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is a Marshal first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Marshal for hire.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 sp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Amber (40 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has wavy blonde hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Juliana 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. Juliana 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. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'11" when asserting herself. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Elizabeth is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Elizabeth lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Elizabeth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Azurite (10 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Eye agate (10 gp).