Description: She likes to wear blue tank tops with green skirt, and she perpetually has her longsword ready. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. A true patriot, Mara would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born in a small desert village. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1100 pp. Amber (60 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Malachite (14 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries a battered flail and tarnished whip as well. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern woman wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She takes great joy in being the best Cook in town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cook arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 6000 gp. Jasper (60 gp). White opal (800 gp). Sard (60 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is brown and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Manfred was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has achieved small success as a Miner.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is short and silver. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is mildly Halfling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 pp. Iolite (70 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Hematite (12 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 pp. Citrine (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Canary diamond (2000 gp). Sard (70 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp).