Description: This western woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair is cut short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Painter. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Mardnab was born on a far western island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Painter. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Painter for the past few years.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This late middle aged man dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a red coat with black slacks and is in decent physical shape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born in the north. Phelaia abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Addict, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Performer does. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. She became a Performer soon after.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.