Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her ears are large.

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 invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature crossbow.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'9" and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her head has been shaved. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'8" when asserting herself. She wears her blonde hair up. She has blue eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Tagga lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 900 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is short and chestnut. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She got into the Servant business at a young age. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She has wavy silver hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Manea studied abroad. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Soapmaker. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her hair is black and very short. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

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 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 born in a small forest village. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Avelina has worked very hard to control her curse. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears baggy blue pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Priest arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Slave, Guardian, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 240 pp. 1 Minor magic item.