Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull green iron scale mail. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. With bright red hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Therlin was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Being a Stableman kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A 2'9" western woman, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Myria hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She found a children's book about a Halfling Rogue who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She struck the Slave Trader job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of a Bookbinder, who enjoyed hunting, Ûkshak was taken on many hunting expeditions. When Ûkshak reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears long strands of sapphire and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born in the east. A freak accident while working with his Adventurer mother left him crippled. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her tied-back hair is golden. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Fisher. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. After a long history of fighting, Verna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp.