Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her dark red hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: 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; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his white crest up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Nykkan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, and is pretty ugly. Her rusty crest is lengthy. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She stands about 4'7" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her ears are large.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Mortician born in the past three hundred years. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She got into the Mortician business at a young age. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 3'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Jillian never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Emotional, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 500 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). 1 Chain shirt.