Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Conrad lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this western woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a great chef.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Average lock. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Geva was born with her mother's beautiful face. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Azurite (14 gp).