Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She dresses like a well dressed Layabout does. Her crest is silver and curly. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1800 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp).

Description: He stands about 3'11" and tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'9" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Beatrice is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Beatrice was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a slave trader and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a blue tunic with grey highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Herleva is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She refers to her adoptive father 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: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 50 gp.