Description: This eastern woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Saphara was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Cook. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2600 gp. Jade (150 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Rose (60 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Rose (60 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her white crest is lengthy. Her red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Actor who has hired her part-time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Daar lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Assassin. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is light but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears just a white suit. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Tomph liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).