Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She has moderate length chestnut hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her black fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears her red hair up. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Andraste lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She wears long strands of emerald and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has wavy chestnut hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born in the east. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent father

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Slave, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 sp.