Description: This malnourished woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Birel hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Shoemaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She tends to her Shoemaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is physically well-built. With bright red hair. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Melissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 50 gp. Silver pearl (40 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is a great chef.

History: Ermina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Red spinel (90 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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. Naeris 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; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She is physically well-built. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the south to a Server, Veloptima learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Actor, but she was a colossal failure. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.