Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ishte grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ishte. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver pearl (50 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman wears a black collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her right hand. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. Her black eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she has a crush on the local marshal

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. He has brown eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barkeep. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has wavy white hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His green crest is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp.