Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has black hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her first spouse was a Navigator, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has violet eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Military, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Herleva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and blue pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Gerard was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Armorer. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Onyx (70 gp).