Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a grey tunic with green highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Barbena was taken on many hunting expeditions. A freak accident while working with her Ruler father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'9". He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Healer responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Amber (70 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, In love, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a white vest and prefers red and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his black hair up. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Watson hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Barrister. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 gp.