Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes. Her tied-back hair is silver. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A freak accident while working with her Priest father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's in love; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Has a crush, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, violet shirt, and white tie. Her hair is red and curly. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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 Miner. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

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

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dragonborn, and stands approximately 6'1". She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scythe. Her green crest is still thick. Her ears are large.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Jasper (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Alston 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 was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he is greedy

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 19000 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His blonde hair is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his long red crest kept up in a rat tail. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Shedinn hails from a village terrorized by giants. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born to a Miller, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student she started as a Miller, but she got bored and became a Glassblower. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.