Description: An older woman who wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. Her head has been shaved. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. She has violet eyes and a blue hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Map Maker. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born in the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He prefers to wear flannel. His head has been shaved. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears long strands of jet and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She got into the Priest business at a young age. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to be a barkeep again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears blue trousers with green and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears dull black sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed flail, just in case. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Jeweler business.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Body Guard profession.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has worked as a Spice Merchant like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1900 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is red and curly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Willow was born with her mother's beautiful face. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting giants, the young Willow began to lead the lost caravan. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Willow was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp.