Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple black robe with blue stripes complete with hood. Her hair, while still mostly dark red, has prominent grey streaks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Semyaza will drive conversation. 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 daughter.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is lengthy. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Phelaia was born with her father's beautiful face. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Myria never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: To reunite with his old friends; and he has a crush on the local spice merchant

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 cp. White pearl (130 gp).

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 160 gp.