Description: She tends to wear a large black jacket. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has wavy black hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Mastema lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to protect her home

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Star ruby (900 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Hematite (7 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has achieved small success as a Architect.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His white crest is unkempt and raggedy. This red eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear flannel. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. 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: Money/treasure; and to be a interpreter again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dragonborn, and stands approximately 6'8". She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shortbow. She has no crest. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. 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 feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is cut short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has moderate length blonde hair. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is obsessed with his god.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. Emerald (700 gp). Jade (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and sickles. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Being a Mercenary kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear flannel. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She is baby faced.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Fallthra was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 10000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp).