Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears her golden hair down. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she has a crush on the local armorer

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Varis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a green costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She is portly but not overly obese. Her crest is short and blue. She has red eyes and a green hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Miller. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Mara wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warlock, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spy and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.