Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and brown tie. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Bolhild took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up sickle and armor she uses now. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red garnet (90 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. Her crest is short and silver. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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: Money/treasure; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She is renowned for her bright violet dresses and hats. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her tied-back hair is black. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Jacoba was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 6000 gp. Tourmaline (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Sard (40 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Blue diamond (5000 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Dyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak. He carries a battered shortspear and tarnished warhammer as well. He has styled his beige fur well, parting it to the left. His copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2400 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her violet robe. She wears a colorful flower in her green crest. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. She has moderate length white hair. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Vapula 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Greedy, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 10000 sp. Malachite (16 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a white coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the left. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family After coming to the age of reason, Kabbarg took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Amber (160 gp). Jade (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Peridot (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.