Description: 4'11" and muscular, this northern woman is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her beige fur, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1500 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her whip with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her brown hair is still thick. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nedda grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nedda. Being a Unemployed kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. Peridot (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is short and brown. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.