Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Tanner, his father struggled to pay the bills. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Her brown hair is cut short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 97. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Henk was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Henk's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly pickaxes and scythes. He has no hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has blue eyes and a violet hat with a green feather.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Soapmaker but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Drogo was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Soapmaker. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Passionate, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Hematite (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: This man likes to wear tan tank tops with green pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his right hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: Quarion is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Fortune-teller they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Mason, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has blue eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Murook grew up listening to her mother's many stories. 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 forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Average lock. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Disguise kit.