Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane and is in decent physical shape. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Hematite (6 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Oriel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has worked as a Spice Merchant like her mother before her.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 280 pp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Jet (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). White opal (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He is portly but not overly obese. He has lavender fur. His copper eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mortician profession.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Recently the stress of being a Spy has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Addict, Insomniac, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp).