Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gurdis will drive conversation. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born in the south. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

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

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 350 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and carries monstrous two handed axes. His hair is short and white. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Marbas was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A 5'6" northern woman, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Beggar born in the past three hundred years. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Kali lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 7000 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Coral (110 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has wavy white hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. After coming to the age of reason, Travok took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

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

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. Her black fur, when down, is lengthy. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Edge is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Edge was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has styled his black fur well, parting it to the left. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Serpent lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. White pearl (90 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length purple hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Sorath was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe and is in decent physical shape. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Bowyer who has hired her part-time. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears dull tan sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed bow, just in case. Her hair is golden and curly. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Poor, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp.