Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has wavy black hair. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She carries with her a set of greataxes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She wears her auburn hair down. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is silver and curly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Philomena hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Philomena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. With wild chestnut hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born in the south. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Jeweler.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A 2'11" southern woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Pearl lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants a kiss

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a black coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She has moderate length white hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. After coming to the age of reason, Nagrette took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2000 sp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Rohesia hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Sellsword work with an outfit from a few towns over. Sellsword work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To be a Painter again; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple green robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). 1 Breastplate.