Description: She wears a brown top hat and brown clothes. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. She is baby faced.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2600 gp. Tourmaline (110 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman wears a tan costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her blonde hair up. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born to a Shepherd, her father struggled to pay the bills. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Eye agate (12 gp).

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this southern woman prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. She sports black long hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Body Guard and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his black hair up. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp).