Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and black tie. Her white crest is lengthy. Her face is scarred and worn.

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. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Emerald (1300 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

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 were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. She has no hair. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mason business.

History: She got into the Mason business at a young age. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mason. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Painter again.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Amber (160 gp). Rose (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears long strands of jet and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. The war was a terrible time for her, and Rohesia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She comes from a rich western family. 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. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. Eye agate (5 gp). Amber (160 gp). Coral (160 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this western woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, brown shirt, and tan tie. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She has amber 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 is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. She has worked as a Body Guard like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries with him a set of kukris, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Pígug was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants revenge against goblins

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears dull white sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed bastard sword, just in case and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is white and curly. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Oolah was born with her mother's beautiful face. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Butcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Butcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1300 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.