Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her blue hair is singed and shortened. She has red eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears dull red sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed sword, just in case. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nora grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Performer responsibilities is difficult; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Jade (120 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'5" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents enrolled him in a Wizard school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His golden hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying west to reunite her family. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 160 gp.