Description: This exceptionally lanky woman usually wears her black robe and has her bastard sword always slung over her shoulder. Her scarlet crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

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. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His black hair is still thick. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and money/treasure

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of a Layabout, who enjoyed hunting, Williamina was taken on many hunting expeditions. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She became a Dilettante soon after.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Orryn's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: High pitched, excited

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

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. He has moderate length chestnut hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Bowyer mother left him crippled. Being a Dyer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has wavy blonde hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With bright auburn hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born into a rich family. Quilla was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Tailor. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears professional attire. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is silver and curly. She has white eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born into a rich family. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and money/treasure

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Azurite (16 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of a Performer, who enjoyed hunting, Galinndan was taken on many hunting expeditions. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3100 sp.