Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

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 loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a sage and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 80 pp. Sard (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'3". She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Ilga 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 Unemployed. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp).

Description: She wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her hand crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tieflings in Verin's homeland. Verin decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She wants to get laid.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears tattered old clothes. Her purple hair is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a Tailor, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Ronk was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 160 pp. Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp).