Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Shoemaker. Her golden hair is well kept. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

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

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 12000 gp. Fire opal (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Rose (30 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Jade (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a grey shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and black pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This malnourished man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is black and very short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Beloril hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in the west. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 34000 sp. Zircon (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a green armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. She carries with her a set of daggers on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She keeps her white crest in a flapper bob. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gesrethe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her red hair up. Her ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Ovak was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Laborer. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a white coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He got into the Mortician business at a young age. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 12000 sp.