Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is black and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the east to a Bookbinder, Katherine learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Katherine 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this northern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears a colorful flower in her bronze crest. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Fortune-teller mother left her crippled. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (60 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'11" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Phann grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is typically in his Bather uniform. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bather business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available he will default to his scimitar. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has wavy brown hair. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Wymar took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp.