Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and grey handkerchief worn on her right side. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's in love

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has black eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Bathin hails from a village terrorized by giants. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 gp. Emerald (1400 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs and is in decent physical shape. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 3'3" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered brigands who tried to eat his hand. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a hunchback. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: The child of a Soapmaker, who enjoyed hunting, Quelenna was taken on many hunting expeditions. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by her family; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brass crest is heavily combed to the left. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Roofer for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Roofer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is black and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her first spouse was a Fisher, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.