Description: A 3'9" southern woman, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Helgret has worked very hard to control her curse. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver pearl (150 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her tied-back hair is blonde. She is baby faced.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Apothecary business.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; 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: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 160 gp. Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a white shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and tan pants. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Stacee isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. The war was a terrible time for her, and Stacee does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. 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 feels kind of lost in life; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 30 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and is pretty ugly. Her head has been shaved. She is baby faced.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Jacoba was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.