Description: This malnourished woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 77. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Miller mother left her crippled. After a long history of fighting, Mella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is short and chestnut. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is a Farmer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He worked as a nervous Farmer and found it very stressful. Being a Farmer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Jet (110 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She uses divination through singing.

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. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is brown and very short. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his small red hat.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Purban was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Beggar, but he got bored and became a Tanner. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has white hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Racist. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'8". She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Wella hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Bricklayer. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and to be a barber again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: 4'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She dresses like a well dressed Performer does. She wears her red hair up. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Emeny is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Performer. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 gp.