Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a violet shirt with thin green vertical stripes and white pants. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Melissa grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Melissa. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 60000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. Her long gray fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She tends to her Barber job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pirate accent

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

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson blue hat.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Antinua was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Painter. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has a crush on the local gardener

Flaws: Selfish, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her crest, while still mostly gold, has prominent grey streaks. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 20000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.