Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a black broad hat and black clothes. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a great chef.

History: Ekk hails from a village terrorized by giants. She worked as a nervous Soapmaker and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Soapmaker like her mother before her.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His tied-back hair is chestnut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Weaver arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly spears and rapiers. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Laborer. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. 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 Laborer. She tends to her Laborer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 sp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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.

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 90 gp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a tan coat. She wears her black hair up. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. 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: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 380 gp.