Description: She wears a yellow vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her yellow boots flare out at the collars. She carries with her a set of hammers on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She has wavy black hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Claira fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 3'0" northern man, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the north. Burto was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Server. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black vest and prefers tan and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has no hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He sports a flattop fur cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

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. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a fancy grey suit. He wears his chestnut hair down. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Nordak isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

Motivation: Revenge; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 220 gp.