Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She usually wears her black robe and has her glaive always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is white and curly. She has red eyes and a black hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Mastema abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature glaive.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Military, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is silver and very short. Her eyes are black and beady.

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. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Beleth was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Beleth was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Shoemaker. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has white hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Crowbar.

Description: She wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'4" when asserting herself. Her lavender fur, when down, is lengthy. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

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. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears a grey shirt with thin red vertical stripes and green pants. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. With wild golden hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is a great chef.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 130 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. After months of barely getting by, Orryn managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Debt, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tippletoe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 20 pp. Onyx (80 gp).