Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Being a Junk Dealer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: 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; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her head has been shaved. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Helgret grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Helgret. After a long history of fighting, Helgret and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: 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; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is purple and very short. Her white eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Phelaia was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. She sports brown long hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Veloptima was born with her father's beautiful face. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many violet ritualistic tattoos. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Body Guard. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Body Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Gerbo hails from a village terrorized by drow. Gerbo abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: A 5'4" southern woman, she wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears a white collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 sp. A small bag of saffron. (10 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He stands about 3'4" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull white iron scale mail. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Namfoodle fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.