Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'7" when asserting herself. She has wavy black hair. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Traulam was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Traulam fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive, Insane. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His copper crest, when down, is lengthy. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a black vest and prefers tan and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He has blue eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shoemaker business.

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. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Silk rope.