Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She has dyed her greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Painter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She tends to her Painter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She carries with her a set of rapiers on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She wears her gold crest down. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though she does not identify as such. A true patriot, Driindar would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Halfling compassion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Aldous was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aldous decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 10 pp.