Description: An older woman who wears a worn and beaten armor, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is short and auburn. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Malquis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Malquis hails from a village terrorized by drow. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Malquis was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears long strands of opal and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. 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 father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Body Guard again; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively, and she perpetually has her flail ready. Her bronze crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has red eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. The war was a terrible time for her, and Pogranix does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1100 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His auburn hair is still thick. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 20 pp.