Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a green coat with yellow slacks. With bright chestnut hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Shamil was born the youngest of three triplets. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has violet eyes and a yellow hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He is a Yochlol in disguise. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp).

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She carries a battered axe and tarnished nunchaku as well. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it, and is pretty ugly. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Recently the stress of being a Knight has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and balancing her hectic life and new knight responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She usually wears her white robe and has her ceremonial dagger always slung over her shoulder. She wears her white hair down. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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: She is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 30000 cp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 2'11" when asserting herself. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in the south to a Masseuse, Stacee learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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 Masseuse. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Masseuse for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.