Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings, and is pretty ugly. She has moderate length black fur. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Shivering lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to be a carter again

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is long and auburn with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is chestnut and curly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She tends to her Cartwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Job, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She wears her silver hair down. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He takes great joy in being the best Body Guard in town.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Body Guard. He's also a talented Servant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.