Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She comes from a rich western family. In her youth she was a Brewer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished greataxe as well. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Disease. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears long strands of aquamarine and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His red fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: The child of a Fortune-teller, who enjoyed hunting, Osco was taken on many hunting expeditions. He found a children's book about a Halfling Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a hunchback. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of a Stylist, who enjoyed hunting, Kristryd was taken on many hunting expeditions. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Half-Plate.