Description: This woman very much looks the part of a Shepherd, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her childhood dream was to be a Bounty Hunter, but she was a colossal failure. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Shepherd for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a tight red one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Merla never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy copper crest. He wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has a hunchback. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Torinn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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's also a talented Shoemaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This light-skinned female is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Sutha was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To be a Mercenary again; and balancing her hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Blue quartz (11 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fletcher. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Onyx (40 gp).