Description: This woman stands a little under 4'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. A true patriot, Mardred would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. She has amber eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Hlin 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. Hlin decided she wanted neither the life of her mother 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. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 70 pp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). White opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nija is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of a Sculptor, who enjoyed hunting, Nija was taken on many hunting expeditions. Nija liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Sage

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

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears dull black sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed axe, just in case, marred by beers. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born to a Stylist, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Weaver hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 10000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has a hunchback. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Scribe but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born into a rich family. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Scribe. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence, Pacifist. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.