Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Hadwisa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He very much looks the part of a Bather. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To be a Bowyer again.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Percival hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. 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: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. During his travels, Trym and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Trym discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Trym fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.