Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

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

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear yellow clothing when she does not wear armor. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Baelitae was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Fortune-teller. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 sp. Zircon (60 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and green handkerchief worn on his right side. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has wavy golden hair. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears baggy green pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of a Crown-heir, who enjoyed hunting, Manea was taken on many hunting expeditions. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Manea has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her scarlet crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Soapmaker but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Gifted from a young age, Roland studied abroad. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 320 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are white.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Damaia hails from a village terrorized by goblins. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Damaia never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She carries a battered scythe and tarnished mace as well. She has dyed her greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. Her eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Fortune-teller. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gifted student she started as a Farmer, but she got bored and became a Fortune-teller. She's also a talented Farmer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing her hectic life and new fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Aquamarine (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.