Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she dresses like a well dressed Painter does. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Painter. 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. Jarana fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She bought a glaive and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her hair is red and curly. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. 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 inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 gp. Carnelian (70 gp).

Description: This woman wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She has done her best to style her brown fur to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak, and carries monstrous two handed axes. Her red hair is wavy and long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Gorga was taken on many hunting expeditions. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Gorga and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 230 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Military, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 3'2" eastern woman, she is renowned for her bright white dresses and hats. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a Masseuse first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. 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 unsatisfied with her job; and to settle down with her crush

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 350 gp.