Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She has done her best to style her gold crest to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born in a small forest village. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently the stress of being a Herbalist has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Fortune-teller and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a grey tunic with violet highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Nalaed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Nalaed was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His fur is short and red. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).