Description: She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She is physically well-built. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. Mella enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. 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: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman is typically in her Guard uniform, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is short and chestnut. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She struck the Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 900 gp. Carnelian (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'3". He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and his gloved hand is found clutching a hammer. His hair is short and golden. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Laborer who has hired him part-time. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Gardener. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Rose (20 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'9". She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She has no hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She became a Ploughman soon after.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 gp. Malachite (14 gp). Citrine (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: An older woman who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is short and brown. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. When Gaaki reached her early adolescence her Half-Orc father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. She has dyed her greying green crest a little too much giving a sharp green color. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Biri hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Knight. She has achieved small success as a Knight.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a club on her belt. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born into a rich family. Jezebeth was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Jezebeth decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1600 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.