Description: She stands about 5'8" and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her white fur up. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively, and carries spears. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Nedda was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Nedda's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mayor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mayor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and to be a fisher again

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Malachite (12 gp). Peridot (50 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'3". She prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is short and black. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She got into the Ruler business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90000 cp. Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is typically in her Bather uniform. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bather. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses like a well dressed Marshal does. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'3". She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length blue hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born in a small desert village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.