Description: She is a husky woman, who sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her blue crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Military, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her gold eyes scan people very quickly.

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. Aym is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Aym lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'3". She wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple red line shooting up and back down. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. The war was a terrible time for her, and Andraste does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. After coming to the age of reason, Andraste took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a simple white robe with blue stripes complete with hood, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Mormog was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Mormog was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Mormog decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is an epitome of beauty. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Amûg was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Dilettante for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. His silver hair is still thick. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 26000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.