Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her fur is short and orange. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Shivering 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 has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mercenary responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear flannel. She has slicked back black hair. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Merchant born in the past three hundred years. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Merchant. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Andraste was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Black pearl (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak, and she perpetually has her club ready. She sports red long hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Apothecary.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 9000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a hunchback. His hair is long and brown with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Boddynock is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Courier

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her broad grey hat.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane, Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and she perpetually has her longsword ready. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 15000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a brown tunic with white highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. She carries a battered shortspear and tarnished whip as well. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. 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 parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.