Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Jacoba hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Jacoba was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Riardon never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 pp. Banded agate (9 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Coral (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Sard (30 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a yellow wide-brimmed hat and yellow clothes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. Her blonde hair is cut short. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: Adelaide is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Slave, In love, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has no hair. His silver eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 3100 sp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'9" and wears a yellow vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her yellow boots flare out at the collars. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Barrister. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a black vest and prefers blue and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She keeps her long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born to a Merchant, her father struggled to pay the bills. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Performer, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1800 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Laborer

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

Possessions: 40 gp.