Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a tan broad hat and tan clothes. With wild auburn hair. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the north 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Birel fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and blue robe with the hood down. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

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. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with blue slacks. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her dark red hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her fierce black eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in the west. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She tends to her Architect job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and balancing her hectic life and new architect responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 30 pp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: She dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She carries a battered mace and tarnished glaive as well. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Virra is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her first spouse was a Junk Dealer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a weaver and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a white costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 800 sp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp).