Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length black fur. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Emma was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 600 pp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Coral (120 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She has moderate length brown hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Marigold isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. After a long history of fighting, Marigold and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'6" and muscular, this eastern woman typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. She has slicked back red hair. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Barrister profession.

History: Born to a Barrister, her father struggled to pay the bills. A freak accident while working with her Barrister father left her crippled. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new bowyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). White opal (500 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Jet (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Coral (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Red spinel (140 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. The war was a terrible time for her, and Tordrid does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Clear bright green emerald (5000 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Jade (140 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'1" and is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: The child of a Carpenter, who enjoyed hunting, Heather was taken on many hunting expeditions. She found a children's book about a Human Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Bonds: In love, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 3000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.