Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her tied-back hair is white. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the north to a Fletcher, Lavinia learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Through the years after Lavinia was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Lavinia's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She struck the Fletcher job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born in the east. A freak accident while working with her Sellsword father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Silver ewer (10 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears long strands of sapphire and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has shaved his head bald. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Hugh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Emotional. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Interpreter. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Dean enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the north to a Slave Trader, Dean learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'2" when asserting himself. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He got into the Detective business at a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he's in love

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 sp.