Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts and is in decent physical shape. She wears her brown hair down. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Ida hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Ida's homeland. Ida decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shoemaker and was forced into it by her family; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This western man wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears white trousers with brown and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Apothecary father left him crippled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. Her brown hair is well kept. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.