Description: This tall, slender woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has wavy white hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple tan robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. A true patriot, Althaea would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Althaea took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up whip and armor she uses now. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears a fancy pastel dress. She carries with her a set of longswords, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her long black fur kept up in a rat tail. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. At a young age her mother died while driving off some illithids. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in longsword use. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Rock crystal (30 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a violet vest and prefers tan and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

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 is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Mella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Mella never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 5000 gp. Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Alain isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 50000 cp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Full Plate.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on her left side. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born in the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gaaki 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 Gaaki. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Nature, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: Standing 6'1", this woman wears a green shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and grey pants. Her crest is gold and curly. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 5000 cp. Azurite (7 gp). Amber (70 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Dagger was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 240 pp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is content

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp).