Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ilanis never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

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

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears dull brown sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed greatsword, just in case. She wears her brown hair down. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears skinny pants and wears a violet and black robe with the hood down. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Fletcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Fletcher work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new fletcher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Military, Job, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and is pretty ugly. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but she was a colossal failure. Recently the stress of being a Weaver has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Weaver responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 220 pp. Black opal (1400 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Shepherd again; and balancing her hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a morningstar, but if one is not available he will default to his kukri. His copper crest, when down, is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shamash grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Shamash. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 12000 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Coral (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Jade (70 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is typically in his Adventurer uniform. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red crest is knotted and matted. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Assassin, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Assassin again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.