Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a blue coat. Her brown hair is braided into rings. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 gp. Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Jet (150 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, she is not a threatening figure. With wild blonde hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Hadwisa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Hadwisa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nicholas fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.