Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Gardener but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Helja lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Ideals: Opinionated, Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 pp. Red spinel (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Zircon (30 gp).

Description: She wears a brown coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her beige fur is knotted and matted. Her yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Rose (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and usually wears her brown robe and has her pickaxe always slung over her shoulder. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Giselle and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic, Greedy. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

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. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Optimist, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 11000 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 (20 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears baggy grey pantaloons and a black scarf. His blonde hair is still thick. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Theodoric never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Poor, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden pearl (60 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Amber (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this eastern woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her golden hair is cut short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vola was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Vola was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Vola's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vola fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1800 pp. Carnelian (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Gardener hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 12000 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.