Description: This woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. Her hair is black and very short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Anastrianna grew up listening to her father's many stories. Through the years after Anastrianna was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Anastrianna's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Anastrianna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. Jade (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her ceremonial dagger with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a very tight haircut. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Philantrophist. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born in the west. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Carter 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: She's looking for her big break; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears baggy blue pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Priest arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Slave, Guardian, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 240 pp. 1 Minor magic item.