Description: This woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His dark red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gold eyes and a black hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Addict. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fortune-teller. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Fortune-teller. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to be a hunter again

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 pp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 3'9" and wears a fancy grey dress. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered illithids who tried to eat her hand. She's also a talented Miller, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a great chef.

History: Charles was born the youngest of three triplets. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 50 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Beatrice grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Beatrice. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a violet coat. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 gp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His bronze crest is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. One day when Mreksh was young, his mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his mother dropped to the ground dead. His mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Mreksh was heart-stricken from the event, and his father started working long hours to provde for them. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and balancing his hectic life and new carter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1200 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Gold and ruby ring (8000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.