Description: A 2'8" southern woman, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 60 gp. Deep green spinel (120 gp). 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Doctor for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, she is not a threatening figure. Her crest is bronze, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She is a Performer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Jaxi was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. A gifted student she started as a Miller, but she got bored and became a Performer. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Jaxi was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

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

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp. Rose (40 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her small red hat.

Personality: She is mildly Halfling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Philomena hails from a village terrorized by goblins. 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. She's also a talented Masseuse, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Masseuse again.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 sp.