Description: She dresses like a well dressed Herbalist does. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Painter. Her crest is short and white. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gifted student he started as a Barrister, but he got bored and became a Sage. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: To be a Barrister again; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 40 gp. Hematite (5 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears an entirely red suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Apothecary. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her 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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Aline's homeland. Aline decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 sp. Jasper (40 gp).