Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Valanthe lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mayor for the past few years.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Coral (90 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Jade (90 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Armorer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Kabbarg was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Kabbarg was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Kabbarg's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to be a dilettante again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her black hair is braided into rings. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jo grew up listening to her father's many stories. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. She has no hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She sports black long hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Born in the west to a Spy, Verna learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She's also a talented Herbalist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Revenge; and balancing her hectic life and new spy responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 70 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'3" and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Howard was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: He wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He wears a colorful flower in his red fur. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Tailor for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.