Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She likes to wear white tank tops with green skirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'2" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: Willow speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is wearing a long, grey cloak. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Animal Trainer and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and she perpetually has her greatsword ready. Her scarlet crest is heavily combed to the right. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She got into the Masseuse business at a young age. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Masseuse. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Masseuse.

Motivation: To be a Carter again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Weaver. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 800 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Bowyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 90 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her golden hair is well kept. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. 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 was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Body Guard 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; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Gifted from a young age, Alice studied abroad. Alice was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Slave Trader. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Alice was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is long and golden with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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, Sapply is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 pp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.