Description: 5'4" and muscular, this northern woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the north to a Actor, Valanthe learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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 Actor. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To be a Gardener again.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Professionalism, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a grey collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a very tight haircut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Herbalist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Herbalist work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She struck the Herbalist job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a simple violet robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her auburn hair up. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mara studied abroad. Her parents enrolled her in a Warrior school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Fighting. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 10 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a whip on her belt. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Anne fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 80 gp. Banded agate (16 gp).