Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She is physically well-built. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

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. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. She has slicked back black hair. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Sailor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Sailor. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing her hectic life and new sailor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Maegan is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Maegan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. Being a Bookbinder 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: A rival would like her out of the picture; and expand her business

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Syllin never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a violet small hat and violet clothes. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears a green shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and black pants. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 40 pp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.