Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears professional attire. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2600 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a green costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His silver crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a whip and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is also unnaturally pale. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Baern will drive conversation. To his fellows he 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he is greedy

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 140 gp.