Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a green scarf. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

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. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and flails. Her hair, while still mostly dark red, has prominent grey streaks. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Prosperine was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Prosperine grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Prosperine. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. She is physically well-built. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'3" and prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is short and blonde. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has worked as a Fisher like her father before her.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He is wearing a long, yellow cloak. He has a hunchback. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He is a Doctor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp. White opal (900 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he very much looks the part of a Sage. His hair is black and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His childhood dream was to be a Cartwright, but he was a colossal failure. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Job, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her blonde hair down. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Unemployed business.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 4'8", this woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. With bright white hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Baggi and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.