Description: This woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple grey robe with green stripes complete with hood, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Healer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Healer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Healer responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Rael was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, marred by sweets. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She got into the Herbalist business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Sard (40 gp).