Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her hair is short and blonde. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student she started as a Server, but she got bored and became a Shoemaker. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shoemaker and was forced into it by her family; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

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 likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her bronze crest is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Biri was born on a far northern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Engraver. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 sp. Moonstone (20 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Blue sapphire (1600 gp).

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Claira was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Fragrant lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp. Zircon (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Mortician born in the past three hundred years. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Detective, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Galiena grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Galiena. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1 Hourglass. 1 Simple lock. 1 Disguise kit.