Description: This slender woman stands about 6'2". She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull grey iron scale mail. Her crest is gold and very short. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Jaxi is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver ewer (20 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on her left side. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A gifted student she started as a Animal Trainer, but she got bored and became a Cartwright. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to protect her home

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes and white pants. She has shaved her head bald. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: Nogu hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. 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: She was born in the south. Her childhood dream was to be a Herbalist, but she was a colossal failure. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 7000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a red Stetson hat and red clothes. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Pearl embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. 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: Pearl was born with her mother's beautiful face. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Knight. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 10000 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear flannel. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2000 gp. Peridot (50 gp). Coral (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Sard (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a Roofer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He became a Roofer soon after.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and balancing his hectic life and new roofer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Amber (120 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Rose (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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His red eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker green hat.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.