Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a grey collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are likewise blue.

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. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Marastyr never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Military, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a tan vest and prefers grey and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 21. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Andraste lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1900 sp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She carries with her a set of pickaxes on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her gold crest is smooth and relatively long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has amber eyes and a white hat with a brown feather.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Myria lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and doesn't want to be a miner and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 sp. Chrysoprase (40 gp).