Description: This younger middle-aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Sarah never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 16000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright pastel and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her brown fur is still thick. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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 got into the Engraver business at a young age. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and she perpetually has her flail ready. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Beggar profession.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She found a children's book about a Halfling Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Jade (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears professional attire. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Hatae was born on a far eastern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Sellsword. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and is pretty ugly. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 400 pp.