Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears long strands of opal and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This woman is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and money/treasure

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she usually wears her white robe and has her pickaxe always slung over her shoulder. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Gifted from a young age, Chenna studied abroad. 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 Guard. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this northern woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a Mason, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Animal Trainer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'7" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his quarterstaff with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has styled his blue hair well, parting it to the left. His skin is flawless and his black eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Oriax was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Stableman. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 cp. 4 Alchemist’s fire.