Description: This dark-skinned female does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Lazy, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Good lock. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Superior lock.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her hair is golden and very short. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: The child of a Weaver, who enjoyed hunting, Andraste was taken on many hunting expeditions. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 60000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has wavy red hair. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1900 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp).