Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her black hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her father's many stories. Portia abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sai.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has wavy white hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: Cairn was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Cairn was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Star ruby (1300 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His first spouse was a Healer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She prefers to wear flannel. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and balancing her hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10000 cp. Banded agate (14 gp). Jasper (80 gp).