Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a large black jacket. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Nija lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Nija liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

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

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greataxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His gray fur is long and unkept. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born to a Mortician, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 pp. Rose (70 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her hair is black and curly. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Griselda was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Cook work with an outfit from a few towns over. Cook work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears professional attire. His crest is short and silver. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Nithther is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Nithther has worked very hard to control his curse. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Everburning torch.