Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a green collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

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

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has shaved her head bald. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). White opal (400 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Sard (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Fortune-teller again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: This malnourished man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His copper crest is matted, messy, and big. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Bidreked was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 15000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).