Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp).

Description: This northern man wears dull black sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. His clothes are grease stained in places. His green crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born in the north to a Stylist, Kerkad learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Stylist for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a black shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is cut close to his head. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. Her brown fur is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She receives visions of the future at random moments

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. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and doesn't want to be a miller and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, she is not a threatening figure. Her red hair is singed and shortened. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a Map Maker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Sarah was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She became a Map Maker soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His fur is cut close to his head. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and blue pants. His hair is silver and curly. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He's also a talented Crown-heir, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a grey scarf. He carries with him a set of bows on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: Born in the west to a Cook, Eldon learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cook hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He became a Cook soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Rolf was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.