Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Andraste was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'4". She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She tends to her Jeweler job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a fancy brown dress. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Alice isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Azurite (12 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her blue crest is unkempt and raggedy. 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 submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.