Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are silver and beady.

Personality: Manea hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 6'1", this woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her crest is short and silver. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. After a long history of fighting, Rezena and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Debt. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 sp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'2" and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carpenter. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Egelina is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Egelina hails from a village terrorized by drow. A freak accident while working with her Fletcher father left her crippled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and revenge

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. 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: Half-Elven compassion; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Guardian, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1000 cp.