Description: This late middle aged woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bather responsibilities is difficult; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 600 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Jasper (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying west to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'11". He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and his gloved hand is found clutching a sai. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Veit was born with his mother's beautiful face. His first spouse was a Detective, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears bulky black painted plate armor. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gnarsh has worked very hard to control his curse. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and revenge

Flaws: Addict, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is white and curly. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heward fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.