Description: She wears an entirely black suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'9". He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs, and his gloved hand is found clutching a axe. He has red hair. His eyes are green and beady.

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 often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Carter and was forced into it by his family; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Merchant business.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Bather father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is content; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Paelias liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue feathered hat and blue clothes. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Detective. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 210 gp.