Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

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. Volen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has blue eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She carries with her a set of flails, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She worked as a nervous Actor and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 40 pp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Malachite (9 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears bulky white painted plate armor. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ekk was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. After coming to the age of reason, Ekk took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1400 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).