Description: An older woman who is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, she is not a threatening figure. She has dyed her greying red crest a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Sora liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a blue collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She comes from a rich western family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bricklayer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and he perpetually has his crossbow ready. His black hair is braided into rings. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zâthra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1500 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.