Description: This northern woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 2'10" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull red iron scale mail. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: She was born in the east. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ea grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ea. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. Sard (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a sickle on her belt. Her crest is white and curly. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: Jezean lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has done her best to style her copper crest to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Doudra was born with her mother's beautiful face. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has golden hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Being a Guard kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and revenge

Bonds: Religious, Slave, Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries hammers. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Kyle is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken from his home at a very young age. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and doesn't want to be a architect and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.