Description: An older woman who wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, she is not a threatening figure. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Alice never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs and is in decent physical shape. His crest is rusty and very short. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Srorthen was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp. 3 Antitoxin. 4 Smokesticks. 3 Acid flasks.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has wavy red hair. He has black eyes and a green hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 160 gp.