Description: She dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Marshal business.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Gimble hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She is portly but not overly obese. Her gray fur is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady copper eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Shipwright, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Junk Dealer. She became a Junk Dealer soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She carries a battered kukri and tarnished shortspear as well. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a trident, but if one is not available she will default to her sickle. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her top brown hat.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Being a Animal Trainer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She takes great joy in being the best Tanner in town.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She struck the Tanner job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Tanner responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 600 gp. Hematite (7 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.