Description: A 5'8" southern woman, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She wears a red vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her red boots flare out at the collars. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Nora is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 700 sp. Banded agate (5 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His black hair is cut short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This western man wears a fancy black suit. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in an above average manner. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Tailor. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Dilettante again.

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Military, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this eastern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has done his best to style his rusty crest to look like a famous performer. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Butcher they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Cartwright, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she very much looks the part of a Sculptor, and is pretty ugly. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Sculptor but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the south to a Sculptor, Vani learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sculptor responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has a very tight haircut. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed tan hat.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).