Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She sports brown long hair. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Bree speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Bree lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. Her orange fur is thinning but still full. Her eyes are yellow and catlike.

Personality: She is a Architect first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Fragrant was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: She's in love; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She usually wears her black robe and has her kukri always slung over her shoulder. Her crest is scarlet, silky, and of moderate length. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Furrele alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears dull brown sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed greataxe, just in case. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She bought a greataxe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature, Poor, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull white iron scale mail. His white fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are yellow and beady.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A 5'11" northern man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scimitar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a flattop hair cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born in the north. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a green costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Shy, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and usually wears his tan robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.