Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright red hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Balifra learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Butcher, but she got bored and became a Spice Merchant. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver pearl (130 gp). Peridot (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. Her fur is gray and very short. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. After a long history of fighting, Sweet and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kipper is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kipper grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kipper. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Fire opal (500 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears dull brown sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shield, just in case. She has wavy silver hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Galiena was born the youngest of three triplets. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 260 gp.