Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with music. She constantly tries to fill her life with music. 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: Gifted from a young age, Valida studied abroad. Her first spouse was a Sage, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her white hair is cut short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She became a Layabout soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, yellow cloak. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This eastern woman is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her black crest is heavily combed to the right. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. 4 Smokesticks. 4 Smokesticks. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He has the majority of his body covered in plate, marred by sweets. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Peridot (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a grey vest and prefers red and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His blonde hair is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she has a large pastel mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. Her fur is yellow and curly. Her eyes are likewise copper. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Emerald was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Emerald was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Emerald's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 9000 cp. Red spinel (160 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses like a well dressed Baker does, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears her silver hair down. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Tawna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is greedy; and expand her business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, In love, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 150 gp. Sard (60 gp). 1 Hourglass.