Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Nora was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in an above average manner. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He's in love; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Sard (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries with him a set of whips, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has no hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Gurdis was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Merchant. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Dayereth was born the youngest of three triplets. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. She wears her dark red hair down. Her eyes are likewise white. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Shava enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the north to a Dyer, Shava learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. 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. 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: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and expand her business

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a brown collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her cinnamon fur, when down, is lengthy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman likes to wear red tank tops with blue skirt. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. Euphemia liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now owns her own business.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 sp. Malachite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is short and silver. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Baern was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a armorer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp).