Description: This light-skinned female wears dark leathers with embroidery. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born into a rich family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has no hair. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Rolf lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Cook

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

Possessions: 1200 pp. Moonstone (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, and is pretty ugly. She has styled her gray fur well, parting it to the left. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She takes great joy in being the best Bookbinder in town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gale grew up listening to her father's many stories. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to be a carter again

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2200 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson yellow hat.

Personality: Jacoba is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 sp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Zircon (20 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her silver crest is braided into rings. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

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. Uadjit was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has red hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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 north his family was never financially stable. A gifted student he started as a Weaver, but he got bored and became a Slave Trader. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Eye agate (16 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to be a locksmith again

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 290 gp. Red garnet (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Jade (60 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has shaved her head bald. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears brown trousers with white and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is silver and very short. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Detective profession.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 170 gp.