Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her hair is short and golden. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Cora was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by her family; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a green coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his white eyes.

Personality: He is a Armorer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a Interpreter, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Armorer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a interpreter again

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She very much looks the part of a Cook, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'8" when asserting herself. Her white hair is wavy and long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She got into the Cook business at a young age. 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. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Avelina never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Dragonborn culture. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp. Red spinel (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'9" when asserting herself. Her red fur is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. She has achieved small success as a Bricklayer.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing her hectic life and new bricklayer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Eye agate (11 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Sard (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He has amber eyes and a blue hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heian is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 50 pp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ortegar isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp).