Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her white fur is braided into rings. Her yellow eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Aura has worked very hard to control her curse. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 80 pp. Coral (50 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses like a well dressed Assassin does. Her fur, while still mostly lavender, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 34. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. 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: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Assassin.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1000 gp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Rose (70 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length purple hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Nija 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. Nija decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 170 pp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is red and curly. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears green trousers with tan and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her silver crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 44. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Gilkass was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Being a Painter 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: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Rose (70 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'4". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scythe. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise white.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Sculptor. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Through the years after Kasdeya was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Kasdeya's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp.