Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing a long, white cloak and is in decent physical shape. She has wavy red hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A gifted student she started as a Server, but she got bored and became a Healer. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Healer for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman wears a red small hat and red clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears professional attire. Her fur is red and very short. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Jade is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jade studied abroad. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a stableman and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a tattered pair of loose yellow pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Healer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His golden hair is still thick. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Flaws: Addict, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Nordak is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He got into the Tailor business at a young age. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To be a Painter again; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1600 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull red iron scale mail. His hair is red and curly. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Priest father left him crippled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 sp. Jade (110 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His crest is black, silky, and of moderate length. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Gorbundus hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Gorbundus has worked very hard to control his curse. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 900 gp.