Description: An older woman who is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, she is not a threatening figure. She has dyed her greying red crest a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Sora 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a blue collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rimple grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rimple. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She comes from a rich western family. 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 Bricklayer. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bricklayer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and he perpetually has his crossbow ready. His black hair is braided into rings. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Zâthra was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1500 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries a battered shortbow and tarnished lance as well. She has black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.