Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is renowned for her bright white dresses and hats. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has achieved small success as a Map Maker.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to be a healer again

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Holy water.

Description: This man wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. His scarlet crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 50 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: He usually wears his tan robe and has his pickaxe always slung over his shoulder. He carries with him a set of pickaxes, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a green vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her green boots flare out at the collars. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length dark red hair. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Prosperine enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Prosperine hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.