Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has wavy blonde hair. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has worked as a Layabout like her father before her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Gifted from a young age, Frederick studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is content

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She is physically well-built. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by her family; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Avice lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 east. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Terse, Insomniac, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and shields. Her red crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Onyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.