Description: An older woman who is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, she is not a threatening figure. She has dyed her greying red crest a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Sora 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a blue collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rimple 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 Rimple. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She comes from a rich western family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bricklayer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and he perpetually has his crossbow ready. His black hair is braided into rings. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Zâthra was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1500 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries a battered shortbow and tarnished lance as well. She has black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She carries with her a set of axes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She wears her silver crest up. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. 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: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She carries with her a set of hammers, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has wavy purple hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Masseuse hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She struck the Masseuse job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new masseuse responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 70 pp. Eye agate (15 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a greataxe, but if one is not available he will default to his greatsword. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Zogdûsh will drive conversation. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zogdûsh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to protect his home

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 110 pp. Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.