Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears her black hair up. Her eyes are black.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Nija was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Painter for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears a violet deerstalker hat and violet clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is baby faced.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Military, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top white hat.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Nikki hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1 Antitoxin. 1 Thunderstones. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. She has dyed her greying green crest a little too much giving a sharp green color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Vezera liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she has a crush on the local scribe

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 390 gp.