Description: This southern woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her red crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Vezera was born with her father's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older woman who wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with red colored cloaks and clothing, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: 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; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her white eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. 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 Ruler. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1600 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: She wears a green vest and prefers black and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her brown hair is lengthy. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Makaria lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Artistic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. When Paymon reached his early adolescence his Tiefling mother 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Military. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.